Earth shape Memes

This meme brilliantly mashes up atomic orbital theory with the flat Earth vs. round Earth debate! It depicts Earth as existing in various quantum states modeled after electron orbitals (1s, 2p, 3d) that chemistry students have nightmares about memorizing. The joke is taking the mathematical models used to describe electron probability distributions around atoms and applying them to planetary shape. In quantum mechanics, electrons don't orbit like planets—they exist as probability clouds with shapes defined by quantum numbers. So instead of arguing whether Earth is flat or spherical, these "theoretical physicists" propose it simultaneously exists in multiple bizarre quantum states—dumbell-shaped, cloverleaf-shaped, and other mathematically-defined monstrosities. Geography teachers everywhere just quit their jobs.