From theoretical brilliance to "Hey buddy, can you check my transmission?" The evolution of mechanics takes an unexpected turn! Newton gave us forces, Lagrange reformulated with energy, Hamilton made it even more abstract with his fancy mathematical approach... and then there's Bob and Steve under your car. Physics purists might need a moment to recover from that punchline. Next time your car breaks down, just tell the mechanic you prefer a Hamiltonian approach to your oil change.

The meme plays on the double meaning of "physics" - referring both to the academic discipline and physical fitness. The person in the chair has an impossibly muscular physique that defies normal human anatomy (hence the physics joke). The comeback is equally savage, suggesting this unrealistic body standard is likely the result of genetic inheritance rather than achievable through normal means. It's basically the scientific equivalent of "I'm studying physics by bench-pressing textbooks instead of reading them."

Classic case of scientific miscommunication in the wild. One guy is asking for the unit of electrical power (which is indeed the watt, named after James Watt). The other guy keeps answering "watt" but the first guy thinks he's saying "what?" and gets progressively more enraged. This is basically every lab meeting I've ever attended. The number of physics jokes that rely on unit puns is directly proportional to how long we've been stuck in the lab without sunlight.

The ultimate physicist's revenge fantasy! Schrödinger creates a thought experiment about a cat in a quantum superposition state, and now the cat is demanding a retraction of this fake quote. Imagine spending eternity as the poster child for quantum uncertainty, only to find yourself simultaneously famous AND misquoted. The cat's expression screams "I'm both offended and not offended until you observe my reaction." Even in the multiverse, no version of Schrödinger regretted meeting that cat—the thought experiment made him immortal in physics textbooks. Though I suspect in at least one universe, the cat got its revenge by putting Schrödinger in a box with a radioactive atom...