Big science Memes

Particle physicists begging for funding is the scientific equivalent of a kid promising to clean their room if they get just one more toy. The meme perfectly captures how researchers desperately try to convince funding agencies that a slightly larger particle accelerator will definitely solve all of physics this time. Meanwhile, dark matter continues to laugh at our pitiful attempts to understand it, much like that smug Pepe face. $22 billion is a small price to pay for the universe's secrets... or so we keep telling ourselves.

Billions spent smashing particles together at near-light speeds, and what do we get? A piña colada joke. The Large Hadron Collider—humanity's most expensive physics experiment—reduced to a cocktail pun. Somewhere, Higgs is sobbing into his Nobel Prize while graduate students snicker in the break room. Next time your tax dollars fund fundamental research, remember: it was all for this glorious dad joke. At least the cocktail looks refreshing... unlike the funding situation for most physics departments.

Particle physicists are basically that friend who swears they'll find the meaning of life if you just spot them $22 billion for a giant underground ring! 😂 The meme perfectly captures how scientists keep promising groundbreaking discoveries (like solving dark matter!) if we just build ONE MORE collider—each bigger than the last. The image shows the current 27km Large Hadron Collider (LHC) compared to the proposed 100km Future Circular Collider, which is basically the physics community's version of "trust me, this time it'll work!" The desperate "bro please" energy is what makes this hilarious—because deep down, we all know they'll find something cool and then immediately start planning an even BIGGER machine!

Particle physicists are basically the gym bros of science. "Just one more collider bro, I swear this one will find dark matter!" Meanwhile, they're planning a 100km ring that makes the 27km Large Hadron Collider look like a toy. The endless cycle of promising groundbreaking discoveries if we just spend *checks notes* $22 billion on an even bigger circle to smash things together. The desperate "bro please" energy is what really sells it—like that friend who keeps insisting one more protein shake will definitely get them those abs.