Dot product Memes

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Quantum Flex Gone Wrong

Quantum Flex Gone Wrong
Congratulations! You've just committed the physics equivalent of wearing socks with sandals. The first notation ⟨a|b⟩ is Dirac's bra-ket notation used in quantum mechanics to represent inner products of quantum states. The second →a · →b is just your everyday dot product for vectors. Using quantum notation for classical mechanics is like bringing a particle accelerator to a knife fight – technically impressive but wildly inappropriate. That smug face says it all: "I don't just break the laws of physics, I break the laws of mathematical notation too." Next up: writing E=mc² as a haiku.

If Cross Product Wasn't Bad Enough...

If Cross Product Wasn't Bad Enough...
The mathematical pun here is absolutely brilliant! The meme shows a Gram matrix (that blue rectangular monstrosity with all those vector dot products) arranged to look like the Swedish flag. The joke hinges on the fact that Jesus died on a cross (×), but in this alternate universe, he died on a dot product (·) instead. For the uninitiated math warriors, a dot product is an operation between vectors that gives you a scalar (single number), while a cross product gives you another vector. The Gram matrix shown here is entirely made of dot products between vectors v₁, v₂, etc. - making it the perfect mathematical crucifixion alternative! This is the kind of joke that would make a linear algebra professor snort coffee through their nose during office hours. Pure mathematical blasphemy!