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Le System De La Soleil, C'est Moi!
Astronomy Science
26 days ago 21.8K views 0 shares
Le System De La Soleil, C'est Moi!
Louis XIV, famously declaring "L'État, c'est moi" (I am the state), would've absolutely misinterpreted Copernicus's heliocentric model as a personal power move. Imagine the scientific revolution hitting Versailles and this guy thinking, "Yes, everything revolves around the sun... which is clearly ME." The ultimate cosmic narcissism. Galileo got house arrest while Louis got a palace—clearly one understood astronomy better than the other.

The Self-Citation Championship
Academia Research Scientists Science
6 months ago 8.0K views 0 shares
The Self-Citation Championship
The academic equivalent of giving yourself a high five. Nothing quite like watching a professor smugly reference "et al., 2018" when they're the "et al." Bonus points when they casually mention "as shown in my groundbreaking research" for the seventh time in one lecture. The citation section of their syllabus is basically their CV with extra steps.

When Your Wife Names Your Quantum Discovery
Physics Scientists Universe Science
6 months ago 12.3K views 0 shares
When Your Wife Names Your Quantum Discovery
The ultimate scientific ego check! Poor Max Planck excitedly tells his wife about discovering the smallest possible length in the universe, hoping to name it something grand... only for her to immediately suggest naming it after him. His disappointed expression says it all—nothing ruins your moment of cosmic discovery like your spouse casually solving your naming dilemma with the obvious answer. The Planck length (a mind-boggling 1.6 × 10 -35 meters) might be impossibly tiny, but his wife's brutal efficiency in naming conventions was absolutely massive.