The Math-Physics Conversion Experience

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The Math-Physics Conversion Experience

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The eternal rivalry between math majors and physics majors in one delicious cracker-based metaphor! 🐦

Math majors initially reject physics (GET THAT THING OUT OF MY FACE!), only to discover that physics offers real-world applications, cool scientists to fanboy over, and—gasp—actual job prospects. The final panel says it all: that moment when pure mathematicians realize they could've been calculating something that exists in reality instead of proving theorems about 11-dimensional abstract structures nobody asked for.

As someone who's watched this drama unfold in university hallways, I can confirm the accuracy. Nothing more satisfying than watching a math purist reluctantly admit that calculating planetary orbits is actually pretty neat. Their expression when they realize Einstein used math to bend space-time? Priceless.

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