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When Mom Says We Have ATLAS At Home

Physics Science Research Engineering

7 months ago 19.2K views 0 shares

When Mom Says We Have ATLAS At Home

When you're begging for the fancy ATLAS detector at CERN but Mom points to the cosmic ray detector you cobbled together in the basement! 😂 The top shows the complex ATLAS particle detector used at the Large Hadron Collider to smash protons and discover exotic particles like the Higgs boson. Meanwhile, "at home" is just a basic cosmic ray track visualization that's basically the particle physics equivalent of a potato battery science project. Budget particle physics is still particle physics, I guess? *maniacal scientist laughter*

Rings Of Desire: Chemistry Edition

Chemistry Science Academia

11 months ago 18.4K views 0 shares

Rings Of Desire: Chemistry Edition

The eternal struggle of a chemist's love life—diamond engagement rings are just carbon atoms showing off, Audi rings are engineering atoms showing off, but benzene rings? That's just six carbon atoms keeping it real. Nothing says "I'm perpetually broke from student loans but intellectually rich" like appreciating the elegant simplicity of aromatic compounds. The perfect symbol of academic commitment: stable, resonant, and significantly cheaper than the alternatives.