Academia Memes

The eternal battle between experimental and computational chemists just got nuclear! Remember when chemistry was about mixing stuff and seeing if it exploded in your face? Good times. Now we've got folks spending years with fancy acronyms like CCSD(T) making "theoretically stable" molecules that have never seen the inside of an actual lab. The computational crowd is basically saying "I'd like to avoid getting my hands dirty with actual chemicals, please give me a computer and some equations instead." Meanwhile, experimental chemists are looking at these beautiful orbital diagrams and energy plots thinking, "Cool graph. Does it blow up though?" It's like bringing a supercomputer to a lab explosion fight. Sure, your calculations say it's stable, but our method of "messing around and praying it works" has been field-tested for centuries!