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The eternal battle of online science forums, immortalized in four panels of pure academic chaos! Top row: r/AskPhysics, where you've got the pretentious quantum enthusiast asking about pre-Big Bang time with "super hyper knowledge" (translation: read half a Brian Greene book) versus the electricity specialist having an existential meltdown because someone dared to ask about cosmology. Bottom row: r/askmath, featuring the virgin quadratic equation asker versus the chad "do your homework" responder. Nothing captures academic gatekeeping quite like watching someone ask about time before the Big Bang while another person frantically screams that electricity is the only valid physics topic. Meanwhile, in math land, asking for the solutions to x²+x=0 gets you the digital equivalent of "get off my lawn!" The hierarchy of academic snobbery is real, and it's spectacular.

The academic glow-down is REAL! In high school geometry, "Let's do an example" means a nice, straightforward problem that actually helps you understand. But then college thermodynamics hits and suddenly "Let's do an example" translates to "Watch me derive the entropy of a black hole using only chalk and my godlike intellect while you desperately try to take notes." The professor's idea of a "simple example" is basically the final boss of physics problems! No wonder we're all begging for more examples that don't make our brains melt.

The perfect physics dad joke doesn't exi— wait, it does! This meme brilliantly plays on the phrase "whatever floats your boat" (meaning do what makes you happy) by having our physics-obsessed hero correct the metaphor with scientific precision. The actual phenomenon that keeps boats from sinking isn't Beyoncé's musical talent but the principle of buoyancy! Archimedes would be cackling in his bathtub right now. For the record, buoyancy occurs when an object displaces a fluid and experiences an upward force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. Not quite as catchy as a Beyoncé lyric, but definitely more relevant to maritime engineering!