I Still Have Nightmares

The progression of a physicist's excitement when calculating relative velocities. First panel: the naive approach that doesn't work in relativistic scenarios. Second panel: Einstein enters the chat with special relativity's velocity addition formula. Third panel: The mind-blowing hyperbolic tangent version that makes mathematicians weak at the knees. It's like watching someone discover increasingly potent forms of caffeine – from regular coffee to espresso to mainlining pure caffeine crystals directly into their frontal lobe.

Somebody once told me math was gonna rule me! The Axiom of Choice is one of the most controversial principles in set theory, allowing mathematicians to select elements from infinite sets simultaneously. Basically, it's like Shrek having the magical power to pick one item from each of infinite swamps without explaining how he did it! Mathematicians either love it or run away screaming - much like villagers reacting to our favorite ogre. Hollywood sequel writers are clearly running out of plot ideas if they're turning to abstract mathematics. What's next? Donkey exploring the Banach-Tarski paradox by duplicating himself into two identical donkeys?

The eternal struggle between theoretical physicists and practical engineers! The physicist is losing his mind because "g is not equal to pi²m/s²" (gravity being approximately 9.8 m/s² rather than the mathematically cleaner ~9.87 m/s²). Meanwhile, the engineer is just like "did you actually verify this with a calculator?" Engineers care about what works, physicists care about theoretical precision. The best part? The approximation pi² ≈ 9.87 is actually pretty useful for quick mental math, but that physicist is NOT having it. Classic academic territory dispute caught in the wild!

The ultimate chemistry class rejection! This poor soul tried to slide into those DMs with "45,800 has 5 sig figs" only to get instantly BLOCKED. Anyone who's survived a chemistry lab knows the pain - 45,800 actually has three significant figures since those trailing zeros aren't significant without a decimal point. That's like saying "I'm 6'0" when you're actually 5'9" - scientific dishonesty at its finest! The chemistry professors of the world are nodding in approval at this savage but technically correct rejection.

The joke here is mathematically brilliant. 144.25 is 12 2.25 or (12×12)×1.0025. It's the square of 12 with a tiny statistical error bar—exactly what you'd expect from calculating an "average" funny number. Meanwhile, the number 12 itself is considered humorous in certain mathematical circles because it's highly composite yet mundane. The presenter's deadpan delivery suggests they're the only one who understands the statistical significance while everyone else is completely lost. Classic case of a joke so deeply nerdy it loops back around to being funny... to approximately 1.0025 people.

When mathematicians stalk Reddit, they bring their probability theory with them! This meme references the legendary Terence Tao (one of the greatest living mathematicians) potentially lurking on a math subreddit. The joke combines advanced math concepts—epsilon representing an arbitrarily small but nonzero probability—with the idea that someone as brilliant as Tao might be secretly posting memes about cohomology (a complex algebraic topology concept) alongside silly "-1/12" jokes (a famous mathematical paradox where the sum of all positive integers somehow equals -1/12). It's like spotting a Nobel laureate posting cat videos—technically possible, but you'd need scientific notation to express how unlikely!