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Too Much Negativity Indeed

Too Much Negativity Indeed
Behold the wish that would turn the cosmos into cosmic confetti! Adding an extra electron to every atom would create negatively charged ions EVERYWHERE, causing electrostatic repulsion on a universal scale. The commenters are having an absolute field day with physics puns - "so much negativity," "lepton to our shoulders," "strange quark of physics," and "no positive spin." They're essentially making jokes about particle physics while acknowledging this wish would create the biggest boom since the Big Bang... just backward! The electromagnetic force would overcome gravity and *poof* - universe.exe has stopped working. 💥

Chemistry Is A Scam

Chemistry Is A Scam
That feeling when you're convinced Avogadro's number is a conspiracy. 6.022×10²³ is suspiciously precise for something nobody can manually verify. Sure, we've all "accepted" this constant since 1811, but has anyone actually counted all those atoms? Exactly. The deep state of chemistry continues unchallenged while we blindly measure moles. Stay woke in the lab.

The Deliciously Sweet Evolution Of Atomic Models

The Deliciously Sweet Evolution Of Atomic Models
From solid spheres to chocolate chips to fancy cookies! The delicious evolution of atomic models is the tastiest science lesson ever! Dalton started with the simple "indivisible billiard ball" approach, then Thomson sprinkled in some electrons like chocolate chips in his plum pudding model. Rutherford revolutionized everything with his planetary system (fancy cookie alert!), and Bohr refined it with specific electron orbits like perfect concentric rings on a butter cookie. Who knew atomic theory could make you hungry? Physics has never been so deliciously educational!

The Nucleic Betrayal

The Nucleic Betrayal
The classic atomic love triangle! The proton and neutron are getting cozy in the nucleus while the electron is forced to orbit at a distance, looking absolutely betrayed. This perfectly captures the electromagnetic attraction between protons and electrons, yet they're kept apart by quantum mechanics forcing electrons into orbitals. Meanwhile, neutrons and protons cuddle up via the strong nuclear force, which is literally 137 times stronger than electromagnetic attraction. That electron's face says it all - forever bound to the relationship but never allowed to join the nuclear party. Trust physics to create the ultimate third wheel scenario!

Does This Count As An Anion?

Does This Count As An Anion?
Chemistry nerds unite! This brilliant wordplay shows an onion with an electron (that little "e" symbol) - making it literally an "anion" (a negatively charged ion). In chemistry, when atoms gain electrons, they become anions! The creator is basically asking "Does this count as an anion?" and YES IT ABSOLUTELY DOES in the pun universe! It's the perfect marriage of produce and particle physics that would make your chemistry teacher both groan and secretly award extra credit.

Atomic Identity Crisis

Atomic Identity Crisis
Physics has gone from "opposites attract" to "opposites annihilate" and now apparently to "it's complicated." The first two atoms show regular matter and antimatter—scientifically accurate and potentially explosive if they meet. But that third one? That's quantum physics having an existential breakdown. The non-binary atom refuses to follow the rigid orbital paths of its traditional counterparts, with particles taking uncertain, dotted-line journeys like they're following GPS through a construction zone. Schrodinger would be proud—it's simultaneously conforming and rebelling against atomic norms. Next up: atoms that identify as molecules, I guess.

The Technically Correct Atomic Answer

The Technically Correct Atomic Answer
This is tautology at its finest! The question asks what the number of electrons equals, and the student selected "the number of electrons" - which is technically 100% correct! 😂 While the question was clearly fishing for "the number of protons" (since neutral atoms have equal protons and electrons), you can't argue with pure logic. The number of electrons IS equal to the number of electrons! It's like asking "What is water equal to?" and answering "water." I mean... you're not wrong! Chemistry teachers everywhere are simultaneously facepalming and secretly admiring this student's technical correctness - the best kind of correctness!

The Illusion Of Solidity

The Illusion Of Solidity
Ever notice how we're all just walking around feeling solid and substantial when we're basically elaborate force fields with delusions of grandeur? That bird's dropping some serious atomic truth bombs. Next time someone bumps into you, just remember they're essentially colliding with your electromagnetic personal space bubble, not your actual "stuff." We're all just nature's greatest magic trick—99.9999% empty space masquerading as solid objects. The universe's most successful optical illusion since black holes!

Nuclear Power: The World's Fanciest Tea Kettle

Nuclear Power: The World's Fanciest Tea Kettle
Behold the magnificent irony of nuclear technology! We split atoms, harness the fundamental forces of the universe, master the energy that powers stars... and then use it to boil water like prehistoric humans with a campfire. 🔥💦 It's like building a quantum supercomputer to calculate 2+2! For all our scientific brilliance, nuclear reactors are essentially fancy kettles - neutrons go brrr, water gets hot, steam spins turbine. The most powerful force in nature reduced to being a cosmic tea maker! *maniacal scientist laugh*

The Ultimate Chemistry Catastrophe Wish

The Ultimate Chemistry Catastrophe Wish
That look of existential dread when someone wishes for chemical chaos! Adding an extra electron to every atom would transform neutral atoms into negatively charged ions, completely destabilizing molecular bonds across the cosmos. Goodbye stable matter, hello universe-wide explosive chain reaction! Even the genie knows this wish is basically asking for a cosmic-scale chemistry experiment gone catastrophically wrong. The electromagnetic forces would go haywire, stars would collapse, and the fabric of reality would unravel faster than a grad student's sanity during finals week. It's the ultimate "be careful what you wish for" scenario where your "one small change" accidentally reboots the entire universe.

Positively Explosive Advice

Positively Explosive Advice
When someone tells an atom to "be more positive," they're not offering self-help advice—they're triggering nuclear fission! The comic brilliantly plays on the dual meaning of "positive" in everyday language versus physics, where a positive charge happens when an atom loses electrons. Our mushroom-shaped friend in the final panel demonstrates what happens when atoms take that advice too literally—they shed their negative electrons, become unstable ions, and... BOOM! Nuclear chain reaction! The universe's most explosive interpretation of a motivational poster.

About To Go Nuclear

About To Go Nuclear
The existential crisis of an atom being accused of fabricating its entire existence. Ironic, considering atoms literally make up everything. That poor nucleus is probably thinking, "I'm composed of fundamental particles held together by strong nuclear forces, and this is the thanks I get?" Classic relationship breakdown at the subatomic level.