Absurdism Memes

Chemistry gets no love in the podcast world, and this reply absolutely nails why. While other sciences get to sound cool with their black holes and quantum computing, chemistry is over here with reaction conditions that read like a fever dream. "Mix these two substances, but only on a Tuesday during a waxing gibbous moon while standing on one foot." The absurdist crocodile example perfectly captures how chemistry feels like learning an alien language with arbitrary rules that make thermodynamics look straightforward. No wonder we chemists just silently mix our colorful liquids in the corner while physics gets all the Neil deGrasse Tyson love.