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This is probably one of the best pieces of edutainment you'll find online. Just think about it: it's physics—yeah, yeah, physics is hard, it's more or less mathematics on hardcore steroids—but it's wrapped into a meme format.

So, even if you do end up googling half the jokes and references, you'll be learning something along the way, so you win in any case! You cannot lose!

Anywho, there's a dedicated online community that operates under the subreddit r/PhysicsMemes and celebrates physics—the easiest and most common way to ruin your GPA the science that deals in nature, matter, and energy—by memeing the heck out of it.

Bored Panda went through r/PhysicsMemes to find the best of the best memes that not only have the potential to make you laugh, but to also educate you a tidbit. Scroll down, upvote, comment, share, all that jazz, you know the drill, and most importantly, enjoy!

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#1

It's Not Tears Of Joy, Let Me Be Very Clear

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lara
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ANY FREAKING ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK.

Starhawk Hunt
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Math. Any level of math. There you have it. My mother was a CPA and my daughter is a PhD in biochemistry. Math gene skipped me totally

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ckcl
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure I have this book at home and I weighed it once out of curiousity. It weighs more than most laptops.

Dagny White
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Last book that made me cry was Freak the Mighty

jon gilbertson
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

anyone else have a list of 'to reads' that stares at you every day? when you finally get to cross one off the list.

Sanchi
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Divergent ending and the end of the legend Series by marie lu

Arnold Cohen
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

D. Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics

kath morgan
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve seen this before and it is one of my favourites 👍

Scott Rackley
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Statistics. Not because it was hard. Because I realized exactly how useless it is.

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    #2

    How To Thought Experiment

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    WJ Williams
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Schrodinger never had a cat. That's why he had no idea if the cat was alive if he didn't look in the box. At 30 seconds past mealtime, you will know if the cat is dead or alive.

    Anonymous
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At 30 seconds past mealtime, my cat thinks it's already starved to death

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    UpQuarkDownQuark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The morbidity of this thought experiment has always bothered me. He couldn’t have had a switch turn on/off a light instead of spilling a vial of poison to kill a cat? It’s pretty twisted.

    Jillian Ziliak
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lisa Kish Ziliak’s birthday is 10/11/65

    Toothless Feline
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the key flaw in the thought experiment: the cat counts as an observer to collapse the wave function. Only if the cat is dead does it not collapse until the box is opened.

    your local queer panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i’ve seen this and the “Shut Up” literally makes me cackle everytime

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    #3

    Thermal Physics Test Tomorrow. Wish Me Luck

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    Remi (He/Him)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip? - To get to the same side.

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    Freddy M. (He/Him)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Usually* my professors say an 8x11 sheet of paper one sided, sadly they are too smart to be fooled by this. I guess I could get an 8 ft. by 11 ft. paper though

    Robert B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they don’t specify what units they’re using, that’s on them.

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    Willa L
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tbh if I were the professor I would let him keep it considering how clever using a mobius strip was.

    Juris Macto
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well played sir, well played indeed.

    B.Nelson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would let it slide. It is, mathematically, one side.

    Janie Mack
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do back of CVS receipts count?

    rodger coghlan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When expanded into 3rd dimension becomes a Klein bottle

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    #4

    When I Grow Up I Wanna Be Like Him

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    lara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I didn't take geometry, I couldn't remember all the damned formulas. I mean, how many times will I use that formula? Just give me the damned formula and I will do the math. Sheesh. Or calculus. Algebra, no problem, it was easy. But the rest, screw the formulas.

    MotherofGuineaPigs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly I remember this formula and I went to school for Microbiology...

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    Michael Largey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always told my Calculus students that after a certain point the key was to (1) be able to recognize what formula you needed to look up and (2) know where to look it up. And if you're going to be using a certain formula quite frequently, it will memorize itself.

    jon gilbertson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the only formula i remember is (s*360)2πr/mC(delta)t. the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat.

    Remi (He/Him)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We could use a book with basic formulae in highschool math physics and chemistry tests. You're not supposed to learn some V = 4 πr³ / 3 insanity by heart, but to learn how apply that info.

    Šimon Špaček
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is ok to lookup formula, especially if you are not sure and lives or big sum of money depends on it. The trick is knowing which formula you need and where to find it. And what numbers to put in.

    Diana Pahule
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I forget anything if I don't use it enough.

    Ian Conelley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I made a formula sheet sticker for the inside of my calculator case which looked like the basic operating instructions for the calculator.

    Keley Babs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Twinkle twinkle little star circumference = 2(pi)(r). Fuzzy-wuzzy was a bear, area = (pi)(r squared)". I could never figure out a verse for volume though : (

    ~darlingthimblemoon~
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen medical doctors Google why a person is ill in the ED

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    #5

    Physics Majors

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    lara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I absolutely hate it when someone says "oh, that can't exist because yada yada." And I say "fergawdsake it's FICTION.' However, many, many future scientists and other of that ilk watched the original Star Trek and are now creating and have created the tech that they used. You cannot create something until someone thinks of it.

    Kate
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a difference between scientific fiction and fictional science.

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    Waite Forit
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a retired nurse and have the same problem watching movies or TV shows. Can't they at least try to get some degree of accuracy in medical procedures?

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I disagree. My understanding of physics allows me to come up with better ways to do things in the movies. In turn, this gives me the ability to think about this movie in a different light. I think I get more from it than most people!

    RedMarbles
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's certainly a spectrum of reality accuracy in movies and people's tolerance for creative license varies. At one end is Ed Wood, who thought no one cared that set walls shook when a character closed a door, and at the other end is perfect attention to the accuracy of every detail so everything seems real. Where you fall on that spectrum will likely relate to your own knowledge base, but most people seem to get taken out of a movie by something they immediately recognize to be inaccurate. I'm only annoyed when people seem to habitually seek out inaccuracies with questionable knowledge to back up their claims. I get not wanting to be taken out of the show and it bothers me too when I am.

    Stephanie Barr
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Truth. I try not to let it bother me and might if I'm compelled with something else in the movie but, c'mon, sometimes it's insane. I remember Armageddon and, as a rocket scientist, I almost rolled my eyes so much they couldn't come back. My (at the time) husband complained it was fiction and to let it go. Until the gattling gun they took to land on an incoming asteroid and blew through the side of their ship. It's not like the topic couldn't be handled intelligently (and was with Deep Impact about the same time). That's when he had to look at me and say, "Okay, that's stupid." I write novels. I'm totally pro fiction and fantasy and all that stuff (really!) but I hate having my intelligence insulted. And if, in my ignorance, someone points out something I get wrong, I bloody well fix it. Snatching someone from the story with a needlessly stupid mistake is a great way to ruin the experience for someone reading/watching. Don't do it.

    Harry Hwt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One worse don't ever understand literature to a degree where you realize that you can predict the movie by what style of characters there are in example once you realize the protagonists always win and antagonist always lose (mostly) and the shift from good to bad and back to good your rarely surprised ever again

    tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me, part of the fun is annoying my family by going 'They wouldn't've survived that' or 'there is no way that would work'. There's a yt channel called CinemaSins which is basically that

    MagicalUnicorn
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i watched 'Gravity' with 2 astrophysicists, i felt the pain...

    Whitefox
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is me and anything medical related. lol..

    Stannous Flouride
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a historian I have a pretty hard time with anachronisms 20th century based costume dramas. Wrong hair, wrong shoes, and especially wrong language. Yeah, I know it's just fiction but I find it so distracting I can't enjoy the movie.

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    #6

    Duh

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    Stylishsidewaysbird
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad who’s an engineer with a physics degree always says “explained” instead “invented” or “discovered”. It’s always been there just needs to be explained 🤷🏼‍♀️

    Caspian McLeod (Cas)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He didn’t discover it either, he explained it/came up with a theory for why we’re not floating around. Discovering it would imply it is a substance or a force that is inconsistent across the planet, right? Explained.

    #7

    Well Now I Am Not Doing It

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    Some Cool Guy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The original double slit experiment was photons but it works with electrons too

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    JMil
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wave function collapse.

    #8

    6 Marks

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    Booklover<3
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get it... Sorry if I'm being stupid I'm only in high school

    B.Nelson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're okay and not stupid. This is LITERALLY what some physics problems are set up as. "A women is riding in a box car on a set of wires while someone dangles from the car from a rope beneath. Plot the movements of the person dangling." Basically, physics problems are ridiculous and have no purpose.

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    Mika N
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shouldn't the rope be wrapped around the axel the other way, over the top and hanging down in the front? The way it is I think the cart would go backwards, hit the platform, and stop.

    Cristian Filip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not if the problem is "How long can Mary move forward on the wires until John hits the cart with his head?" ;)

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    Catrovert
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yeah! I was just in this situation last week!

    Den Ver
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    [Edit: I just saw Mika N already mentioned this.] Anybody else notice the rope is wrapped around the axle the wrong way? As the boy falls he would make the cart go backwards (or in this case, prevent if from moving). Maybe this was the concept that needed to be analyzed?

    Stephanie Paich
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not a physicist, but I would imagine in real life the woman in the cart wouldn't be in the cart for long with this setup.

    Mika N
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol! I just imagined her flying over the front when the guy reaches the length of the rope, I hadn't even thought of that. I guess it depends some on their relative weights, but I would think the jolt from the sudden stop of his decent could do it.

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    Shreshta Sreenatha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This picture is actually outside my school physics lab

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    #9

    Very Suitable Assumption

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    Alienking06
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a long story, but one day (to calculate density and gravitational pull) I had to assume that a Canadian goose was a sphere.

    Richard Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, the Earth is a cow. That'll make the flat-earthers heads explode. :D

    rodger coghlan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Topologist: the cow is like a doughnut

    Thomas Koopman
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a mathematics student who also does most physics courses abd I've literally been pouting in physics lecture because of the derivative/fraction bit

    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "what does the moo cow say? AAAAAHHH!"

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    #10

    I Can’t Think Of A Title

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    Ian Conelley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The peace du resistance. (Read with cheesy Monty-Python French accent.)

    Harry Hwt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now for something completely different....

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    XenoMurph
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could think of a title, you just aren't letting the energy flow

    #11

    Reality Is Often Disappointing!

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    lara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reality has very little function in our society

    Stephanie Paich
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's closer than a cow being a sphere honestly. Also, is there such a thing as a non-circular cylinder?

    shiny shinx
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    noot noot | edit: oh wow the post below right now is also noot noot

    Harry Hwt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean you can take anything and change it's shape to another given enough force like in reality if you blended a penguin up it would occupy a set amount of space in a certain cylindricsl glass or barrel sorry to be morbid just giving my perspective

    Eric Wilson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Physicists just understand that a circular cylindrical Penguin may be improbable but it's not impossible!!

    Cuppa tea?
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the saying goes - assume will make a*s from you and me.

    Raven Sheridan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Physics is to science, what Surrealism, is to art.

    #12

    Bit Dark, Didn't Stop Me Laughing Though

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    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The person at the top has potential energy..

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    Jack Churilla
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    bob experienced to much potential energy

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    #13

    I Finally Saw It [In Real Life]

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    Strawberry Pizza
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almost missed the disclaimer at the top left, lol

    RezFidel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn.. thats the amazing Katie Bouman... She played an important role in M87 BlackHole picture making. LEGEND!

    Waite Forit
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was an old woman who lived in a ball. She had so many children, she couldn’t feed them all.

    Ian Conelley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "For physics purposes, the cow in this equation will be a sphere. The moon will also be a sphere, Conelley, put your God****d hand down, I'm in no mood for your c**p, today."

    Feminist Percussionist
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn’t that the woman who took a picture of black holes?

    RedMarbles
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That look on her face is priceless

    Gretchen Esquilin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's actually a house in my township that's round. It's the weirdest looking thing! LOL

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    #14

    You Get The Idea

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    #15

    Pauli Was Such A Badass

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    shiny shinx
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    brain.exe is not responding

    Random Person
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy c**p a shiny.*Hurls a quick ball at you*

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    Aunt Riarch
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's time I went to bed

    UpQuarkDownQuark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This and Hawking radiation. Feel like I’m never gonna be able to wrap my head around these concepts.

    The Idaho Potato
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quantum spin dependent on measurement. Just wait until you get to helicity and chirality (and right-handed neutrinos).

    Geoffrey Mosini
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We heard your disapproval, this denomination is confusing. So why not calling that a "magnetic dipole moment" when considering charged particles...? Oh, ok, wait a moment !

    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brain: HHfYhGfHhgGHGGBVvgGFKfafTNHt

    #16

    Organic Chemistry Books Are Basically A Portfolio Of Hexagons

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    #17

    Island Of Stability Where

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    shiny shinx
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    is it important in daily life? maybe. is it important to study? YESYESYESYES xD

    Stannous Flouride
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we predict how it will completely alter technology in the future? Nope. But it might.

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    The Idaho Potato
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What particle is this? That's like a quadrillion times longer than the Higgs...

    XenoMurph
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I last nearly as long as that.

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    #18

    Yεs

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    Jill Hojnacki
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a maths phobic who managed to pass 2 semesters of college physics in my late 50s after managing only Ds in HS algebra, I remain amazed that I actually understand these formulae. (This does NOT, in any way, suggest that I will necessarily get the correct answer if presented with a scenario that includes actual numbers. That’s a whole ‘nother thing. *sigh*)

    #19

    Entropy Goes Brrrr

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    lara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously this "person" has never had a chocolate chip cookie with ice cold milk. THAT is perfection. Idijit

    DJR
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's so perfect, how come you want another after you've already had 23?

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    Geoffrey Mosini
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Death of one is a tragedy..... but thermodynamics is just statistics !

    Harry Hwt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes similar to her:does this dress look on me babe him: it looks almost perfect babe ,her:how is it not perfect him:(future slap detector activated) uh oh

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    #20

    Every Time

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    shiny shinx
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i find the brain armchair mildly disturbing

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    #21

    Made During Chemistry Class

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    Stimpy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Biology: there are laws, but every single one has exceptions

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    #22

    Just Look It Up

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    Jellicle bat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously you just have to look in the book

    DelvianBlue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found when working on my degree that most scientists who write textbooks have only the barest concept of how to write a complete sentence, much less one that actually makes sense and includes only real words.

    lara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You do realize he didn't say WHICH book.

    #23

    Hand

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    Nevid
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Students regularly doing the finger gun during an exam and concluding "Ok, the force goes this way".

    Franz
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can use the cross product rule instead of left and right hand rules you can always do the finger curling stuff :)

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    lara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My astrophysics professor said "if it exists, it is real, if it doesn't exist, it isn't real. Figure it out from there."

    NoCleverName
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any test involving magnetism or moments was always fun to watch. RHR flying everywhere. Like an entire classroom trying to grab an invisible "oh sh*t" bar Edit: a letter

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    #24

    You Get An Accelerator And You Get An Accelerator! You All Get Accelerators!

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    The 3 Year Letterman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Accelerator go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

    RubiTheCat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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    Max A.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    take into account the radiator fans, they also push your car forward, and your exhaust is a miniature pulsejet engine.

    Awen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope it brakes not break

    Amused panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So...I guess lesson here is don't ask a physicist to teach you to drive if you don't want to get completely confused and crash.

    Micah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you break that brake, you'll suffer a bad break when you eventually brake.

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    #25

    Big Oof

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    JMil
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a function of velocity, no less.

    DJR
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But do we have account for boundary layer air at supersonic speeds?

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    Geoffrey Mosini
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it's basically ~O(v²) But if you really think it through maybe you can make it O(log(v) !

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    #26

    Well, Yes I Am A Genius

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    Max A.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    me ignoring what i need over what i want..

    J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me ignoring physics and chemistry because it makes my brain hurt!

    TheHalloweenTeen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do the first and last, ig I'm average?

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    #27

    Don't @ Me

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    Lisa H
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sending this one to my brother, who majored in astrophysics. I will, then, ignore his response which will indubitably be a lecture. I just want to annoy him.

    #28

    Made With Paint

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    Freddy M. (He/Him)
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For those who don't get it, this is the 2 slit experiment, a quantum mechanics experiment where you send a bunch of photons through 2 slits. The black dots on the back board represent where the photons hit, if you observe the photons before they go through the slits they land where you expect, in 2 lines as shown on the bottom, if you don't observe them then they land in the stripes above, since their probabilities weren't collapsed so they can end up in seemingly impossible patterns. This about the limit of my knowledge on it though, and I may've gotten some stuff wrong so don't quote me Edit: Correction from JMil, it's if you try and detect the photon going through one of the slits, not if you observe them before the experiment. Also, the pattern is caused by the photon seeming to interfere with itself as if it had gone through both slits. Read their reply below for more info from someone who knows more than me

    JMil
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an interference pattern (the superposition principle states the intensity of waves sums, causing constructive or destructive interference). This will happen even with a single photon at a time. Wave-particle duality. It is as if the particle interferes with itself when it's wave function "passes" through both slits. It is as if each slit is the source of a circular wave. However, if you observe the particle at the slit, the wave function collapses and restarts, so it is as if it did not pass through both slits simultaneously and only one circular wave propagates. Observation resets a particles wave function.

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    JMil
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is brilliant.

    OogieBoogie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The glitch in the simulation !

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    #29

    Oof-Size: Large

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    Lathari
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Your units are wrong! cried the teacher. Your church weighs six joules — what a feature! And the people inside Are four hours wide, And eight gauss away from the preacher!" - https://www.physics.harvard.edu/undergrad/limericks

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    #30

    Good Work Guys

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    lara
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope, not if it is coming from Earth.

    Max A.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not intelligent enough

    Sanchi
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why were you downvoted? Have an upvote to balance it

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    #31

    The Highest Honors In Science

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    Jrog
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many great scientists have been honored with many useful measurement units. Some of them, with not-so-useful units. The SAGAN, named after astronomer Carl Sagan, is the unit for "a generic large quantity of stuff, usually more than four billions of it". Scientist Paul Dirac, who was well known for his silent disposition, gave origin to the Dirac, a measurement that equals to 1 word/hour. Richard Greenblatt, the notorious american hacker and MIT scientist, upheld the myth of the... lack of hygiene in the IT community and went on to be honored with the "milliBlatt", a measurement of strong body odor.

    Jrog
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then, there is the "Lovelace", a measurement unit named after 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat. The unit is meant to measure how much a software "sucks", and for very obvious reasons 1 Ll means it sucks a lot...

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    Lizzy Abbey (she/they)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you shall f**k up most of my peers grades thank you for making me look like the smartest kid in class.

    #32

    What Now?

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    jon gilbertson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    is that the phone number of an Islandington flat where Arthur Dent attended a dinner party?

    shiny shinx
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    is that value important or just random? (genuine question)

    David K
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The resistor value is important in real life (there are 6 standards, I think), but there is also a so called resistor tolerance that could be up to +/-20%.

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    jknbt jknbt
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    take a 6 ohm resistor & work on it with a triangle file until it reads exactly what you want...

    lara
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fools. Everyone knows that.

    DC
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Potentiometers, anybody?

    Geoffrey Mosini
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    «Oh boy, I'll just have to make one then...» The other subtitle would be "Why fundamental physics studies last years or even decades?"

    #33

    Literally

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    Lizzy Abbey (she/they)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    kaguya-samas love is war (i know better now thanks for the help on that other meme!)

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    #34

    When You Use G=10 Instead Of Using G=9.8 In Numericals

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    Cody
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um... Air resistance is a thing

    Giles McArdell
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not for the purposes of this example. Also, assume both bodies are smooth bodied regular cylinders.

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    Apatheist 62
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't it have fallen further in the top right pic if g were 10 rather than 9.8?

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    #35

    Had Some Thicc Error Bars

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    Trophy Husband
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think I'd ever call myself Donald Trump, even for a meme...

    Chich
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe the "trump" could be a new unit for stupidity with 45 being the maximun level of trumps one could attain before death resulting from forgetting to breathe.

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    Halana
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lab instructor: we need to do the experiment before we read the lab manual

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