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40 Memes And Posts That Physicists Might Especially Enjoy (New Pics)
Interview With Expert
Some people absolutely love science, others can’t stand it, and then there are those who fall somewhere in the middle. But if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that science jokes are universally entertaining.
The Instagram page “Physics Meme” is dedicated to sharing hilarious and clever posts about science, scientists, and their daily struggles. Perfect for science enthusiasts, students, or anyone who just appreciates a clever joke, they’re guaranteed to make your day a little brighter. So, dive in, enjoy the humor, and let us know which ones made you laugh the hardest!
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Auntriarch 7 months ago
My knickers did that. While I was wearing them. Though I was taking tramadol at the time.
Melinda Flick 7 months ago
Or the lovely THICK fleece blanket that is also slippery AF, and grabbing it to pull it up in the middle of the night means waking up enough to find where it’s gone off to. It has free will…
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Red Wyvern Emperor 7 months ago (edited)
Quantum physics: We make no sense, yet sense of all in the world.
Lime Rendel 7 months ago
Whyyyyyyy does this exist? Why do electrons do this c**p? I hate it it makes my brain hurt
Even if we didn’t all major in science, most of us can appreciate a good science joke. You don’t have to be a physicist to chuckle at a clever pun about gravity or a biologist to enjoy a joke about evolution. Just take The Big Bang Theory, for example; it introduced millions of people to science humor, even if they didn’t quite understand every reference.
To understand the magic of science humor better, we spoke with Matthias Hanke, a M.Sc. Biophysics and Biomodeler based in Lyon, France. He believes that humor plays a key role in making science more engaging. “Humor helps people connect with science. It works on both sides, the listener and the joke creator. If you understand the joke, it reinforces a positive connection with science. If you don’t, it might still spark curiosity and make you want to learn more.”
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lightlywhispereddestruction 7 months ago
now that they are dismantling NWS, this is how predictions will be made in 2025
Alyce 7 months ago
Dramatic, much? Most television stations have their own equipment and specialized staff.
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Lyone Fein 7 months ago
Didn’t Ben Franklin start the Farmers Almanac? That was a bit before 1861.
Glenn Milliken 7 months ago (edited)
describing the present is not forecasting the future it's just casting now
Lime Rendel 7 months ago
Honestly, I think this is more accurate than real weather predictions sometimes
Regina Holt 7 months ago
There's a lot of concepts that don't work in the US.
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Catlady6000 7 months ago
Bananas are part of the new math from 2 math cycles ago
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Bill Swallow 7 months ago
Still sets my teeth on edge and fills me with Hulk Rage to know that America was *THIS CLOSE* to adopting Metric way back when, except FARKING PIRATES captured the ship bringing all the stuff over from Europe!
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
The English pirates stole the metric models that were sent to USA from France btw, the kilogram or the meter might be in the British museum somewhere
According to Matthias, jokes can be a great educational tool. “For example, some jokes take a scientific concept ad absurdum, making people question the definition of that concept. Others mirror scientific ideas in a familiar context, helping listeners grasp the core idea through analogy.” Basically, a well-crafted joke can be an invitation to explore a new topic.
Some science jokes even introduce scientific trivia in an unexpectedly fun way. “Wordplay can make people curious about unfamiliar terms, scientists’ names, or even technical concepts. Instead of feeling intimidated, they might feel motivated to look it up and understand more.” So, the next time a joke makes you Google something, know that it’s doing its job!
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Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Mars does have an atmosphere. Not one you can breathe, but the sandstorms are epic
Glenn Milliken 7 months ago
Oh what time of year did you go It was pretty calm in the winter
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When it comes to his own field, Matthias finds plenty of humor in biomathematics, especially in disease modeling. “Since it sits at the intersection of multiple disciplines, there’s a lot of comedic potential.” And of course, he had some jokes to share.
One of his favorites? “Why did the virus break up with the cell? Because it wanted space to multiply!” It's the kind of nerdy punchline that gets a chuckle in his circles and a groan from everyone else.
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Auntriarch 7 months ago
Anyone else think we need a temperature scale beginning with U? Just me? I'll get me coat....
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Fahrenheit and Celsius will align. At -40° so not something you want to see at your thermometer
Red Wyvern Emperor 7 months ago
I love how C and K are on the same side. For those who don't know: Celsius and Kelvin have same scale, just different 0s.
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Pandemonium 7 months ago
"If you take the last cup for the love of God make another pot" - Janice in Accounting
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krunchifrog 7 months ago
And that is exactly why I did not choose to study astronomy in university.
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Bill Swallow 7 months ago
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
On the mathematical side, he gave an example: "A mathematician was challenged to catch a lion in the Sahara. He steps inside a cage and says, 'I’ve caught the lion.' ‘What?’ the challenger asks. ‘Oh, it’s quite simple, you see, I’ve just defined the inside of the cage as the outside!’" This joke pokes fun at how mathematicians play with definitions to solve problems, sometimes in ways that don’t quite match reality.
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Bob Brooce 7 months ago
Having a rudimentary grasp of gravity and physics (not to mention some rock climbing experience) I can tell just by looking that they're keeping their center of gravity on the wall side of their outside feet, thus complying fully with physics.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
The joke is that it looks like they're not standing on anything.
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Talis 7 months ago
Paul Ehrenfest died by Ludwig Boltzmann's hand, which also killed Ludwig Boltzmann 27 years earlier?!? Boy, that's quite a horror story!
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
The hand of Boltzmann that haunts all statistical mechanics students to this day.
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stupidMonkey 7 months ago
I like the first unhighlighted sentence. "Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously"
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Red Wyvern Emperor 7 months ago
Reminds me Shrodinger thing. His explanation: "At any moment, the cat can be dead or alive." People: "Oh that means the cat is both dead or alive." Actual meaning: "I gotta check inside the box to see if the cat is dead."
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Bill Swallow 7 months ago
Italian Mathematicians sound like Onslow on 'Keeping Up Appearances'?
Bill Swallow 7 months ago
That 'period' (dot) between the two 'z's is meant to be slightly higher than the baseline - i.e., a multiplication symbol.
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Slapdash1 7 months ago
The cardboard one in which they delivered the xbox
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HappyMaskSalesman 7 months ago
The solution for getting more kids interested in STEM: lightsabers.
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
The way they name exo-planets is about organization and being able to remember exactly which system they belong to. That's way most are in the [name of star]-[letter] format. [Star]-b means it's the closest in orbit, [star]-c is the next one out, ect. So Earth, if it was an exo-planet, would be Sol-d! Yes I love space facts haha
UKGrandad 7 months ago
Upvoted for space fact, but I wouldn't be me if I failed to point out that et cetera is abbreviated to 'etc'.
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Also Astronomers naming planets in our solar system: Hey Bob, do ya know what's big and gassy?
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
Even if you use the wrong scalar to do the conversions, you will still always get a perfectly valid Fibonacci sequence if the first one is.
geezeronthehill 7 months ago
That will be useful once I memorize the Fibonacci sequence. Ooh! Autocorrect does not like Fibonacci!
Science jokes don’t just make people laugh, they make them think. A clever pun or a well-placed joke can take something intimidating and make it approachable. It removes the “this is too complicated for me” barrier and replaces it with curiosity.
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Victoria 7 months ago (edited)
This kinda makes sense if you think about what he was referencing. Two of the big unsolved problems at that time were the Aether anamoly because Michaelson-Morley showed that there was no anomalous Aether, but the assumption was this could be solved by some simple adaptation of Newtonian Gravity. The other was Blackbody Radiation, where the prevalent theory and experiments didn't match up. But the expectation was some tweaking of the existing theory could make it work. Well.....not so much. The solution to the first was Special Theory of Relativity which showed there's no reason to use the Aether and the subsequent General Theory that overrode Newtonian Gravity. The second was solved by Planck hypothesizing Energy comes in packets called Quanta, which led to Quantum Mechanics. Two of the giant advancements in 20th century physics, which were really completely novel. BTW, one of the great unsolved problems of 19th century physics is still unsolved: Turbulence (Navier Stokes)!!
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 7 months ago
Well, the only reason I couldn't invent calculus is that it has already been done.
This panda says ur worth it 7 months ago
My.mom makes the best sourdough like every week during the summer 😋
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Matthias believes that humor is an underrated tool in education. “It makes learning fun, keeps people engaged, and encourages them to explore topics they might otherwise avoid.” And let's be honest, who doesn’t love a good nerdy joke?
So, whether you’re a science enthusiast or just someone who enjoys a good laugh, there’s something special about science humor. Which of these jokes did you find the most clever? Let us know and if you have a science joke of your own, don’t hold back!
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Janissary35680 7 months ago
A snubbed Dodecahedron. (The Dodecahedrons went NC after a devastating St Hubert's Day faux pas.)
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Red Wyvern Emperor 7 months ago
Honestly, how long did he think it would take for the universe to repopulate? In last 100 years, humans have quadrupled our numbers. We go double every 50 years or so.
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Also half of all life would mean animals, plants, bacteria etc so halving the food sources randomly so a probable famine for the next year at least. Plus on a less depressing note, losing half of your useful gut bacteria means diarrhea for everyone
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Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Isn't it always the evil landlord trying to make more money or something
Floeckchen 7 months ago
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for some meddling kids!
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M O'Connell 7 months ago
This is a particular problem with certain Casio calculators, as they expect you to enter an equation explicitly and not use shortened (conventional) forms of mathematical notation.
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UKGrandad 7 months ago
I watched a documentary a few years ago which featured a mathematician who was number-dyslexic. A simple written arithmetic problem such as 17+48 had her stumped, but she could write and solve complex equations with ease.
Julie Gellert 7 months ago
I too have dyscalculia (the official name for number dyslexia) and I can totally relate. I need a calculator to do basic math, but I aced undergrad statistics, with all its equations, to the point that I was able to test out of it for grad school. In my mind at least, the algebraic equations were more like logic than math.
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Regina Holt 7 months ago
Well, just remember, they made it easier to remember the last five digits, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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Bob Brooce 7 months ago (edited)
If you think you can get lost down a rabbit hole try a wormhole. untitled-6...507ff8.jpg 
Red Wyvern Emperor 7 months ago
Back in highschool I was making a presentation on astronomy. Had to write in THICK red across entire screen "lightyear is a unit of distance, NOT TIME". I still got asked how long is lightyear to earth years.
Bob Brooce 7 months ago
So give the poor people an answer. An Earth year is about 92,960,000 miles * 2 * 3.1416 or about 584 million miles. A light year is about 5,878,625 million miles. That makes a light year about 10,066 Earth years, and it's not unreasonable to say that 10,066 Earth years is almost exactly 1 light year.
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Ace 7 months ago
Yes they can. They can't tell the difference between red and green,, but they can see them perfectly well.
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
I think someone discovered gravity way before Newton came along. Icarus, for example.
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
The absence of a color is not a color. The absence of religion is not a religion.
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
0/0 is not undefined. It is indeterminate. Meaning it depends. Take sin x/x. If x = 0, that's 0/0. But as x gets close to 0 from above or below, the value of the quotient is essentially 1. Or take (x^2-1)/(x-1). If x = 1, that's 0/0. But as x gets close to 1 from above or below, the value of the quotient is essentially 2. If you plot them on a graphing calculator, you'll see this. (It's a non-zero number divided by zero that's undefined.)
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Michael Largey 7 months ago (edited)
Any triangle becomes two right triangles if you drop an altitude. My math teacher was always saying "Drop the altitude" to me. Or something very like it anyway.
Andie Day 7 months ago
Who ever downvoted Pandemonium: That was a sarcastic comment. Pythagoras theorem states that “In a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse side is equal to the sum of squares of the other two sides“. The sides of this triangle have been named Perpendicular, Base and Hypotenuse. Here, the hypotenuse is the longest side, as it is opposite to the angle 90°. That was your math lesson for today, Your humor lesson apparently went over your head.
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SirWriteALot 7 months ago
For those who forgot basic math (like I did before I looked it up) it's a^2 + b^2 + 2ab.
Fellfromthemoon 7 months ago (edited)
No, if a = -1*b, then the (a+b) part is 0, and 0^2=0. Whereas if a=-1b, then a^2 + b^2=2*a^2.
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char 7 months ago
math teachers while you're watching are like "so then you can simplify 300x/30 to 10x" and then you look away for one minute and they're like "so now that we've gotten 52 quadrillion 72 hundred 90 xrq to the power of lmnop divided by the sine of the tangent of the absolute value of infinity and beyond, we can easily find our answer"
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UKGrandad 7 months ago
Reminds me of my 4th-year (14-15 yrs-old) physics teacher. He was a retired professor who had decided to get back into teaching. The trouble was that he could not teach at secondary school level: he tried teaching us university-level physics and couldn't understand why we couldn't follow what he was teaching us.
Michael Largey 7 months ago
I liked teaching math because it's the only time people welcome you assuming they're completely ignorant.
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STress (I/me) 7 months ago
"Brake", for Pete's sake!!! Does no one speak proper English anymore?!?
apinecone 7 months ago
Most of us speak it properly, it's the writing that's the tricky bit. At least its intelligible.
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