Two cars pull up to impress the same person. The white compact is plastered with mathematical equations - a noble attempt at intellectual signaling. The red sports car? Just basic physics diagrams.
Perfectly captures the eternal academic hierarchy. Mathematicians build elegant theoretical frameworks while physicists take the simplified versions and get all the funding, publications, and apparently, the romantic attention.
As we say in the lab: "Math is respected, but physics gets the grant money." And apparently the dates.