Call that a knife?

Some are smaller than others

Not this knife

Sure? How many? Because I have some atoms at home and need a new knife

But what would you do with the sliced cucumbers of millenia?

I know very little about physics and I'm pretty sure you could cut cucumbers with a knife until the end of time and you'll never trigger a nuclear explosion.

Actually, it's because cucumbers are so cool (c.f. cool as a cucumber) that they're in a ground state. It's actually endothermic to split their atoms so you don't get a chain reaction.

Cutting hot vegetables, habernaros for example, is much more risky and adequate precautions should always be taken to avoid radioactivity contaminating sensitive regions of the body.

You're doing it wrong. The mouse just diced a cucumber really, really l, small.

Not with that attitude.

Someone let Einstein loose, we must admit that violence is on occasion the only recourse.

It’s also why cats are afraid of cucumbers.

Fission doesn't happen because we cut atoms in half. Fission happens because we blast enriched uranium with neutrons, the uranium absorbs a neutron, gets too heavy, and falls apart.

I mean think about it. Atoms are surrounded by a negatively charged electron cloud. Pushing 2 atoms together would be (sorta) like trying to push the like poles of two magnets together.

Okay, now explain bananas.

(assuming your post isn't a joke) it is impossible to cause a nuclear reaction by cutting cucumbers.

the biggest innacuracy in this comic is that as the panel zooms in on the cucumber atoms, the knife looks exactly the same. if it was realistic it would just be a bunch of metal atoms pushing aside a bunch of cucumber atoms, not a sharp knife slicing through individual atoms.

You're assuming the blade would be thinner than the nucleus, at the very least.

The electromagnetic force from the atoms' respective electron cloud probably help prevent atom from getting close to each other. And the strong nuclear force also help prevent atom from splitting.

Ok if it is theoretically possible to cut atoms by using metal knives then why didn't ever a fission happen? I mean if you combine all knife cutting in the whole world since knives exist, the probability should be pretty high.