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Different Types Of "New" In Science

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The scientific community's standards for "new discoveries" are apparently... flexible. 🧪 Physics: Got a blurry video of your cat toy vibrating? Congratulations, you've discovered the "quantum fuzzball particle" that will revolutionize string theory! Chemistry: Drew some random circles and lines? That's definitely a groundbreaking molecule that will either cure cancer or make really good shampoo. Nobody knows! Biology: Found a weird noodle in your backyard? Time to name it Vermis exgirlfriendus and submit to Nature! Mathematics: Who needs rigorous proof when you have a million kids with TikTok accounts demanding "squillion" be recognized? Democracy wins over mathematical convention!

The Different Types Of "New" In Science

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Scientific breakthroughs aren't what they used to be! 🤪 Physics: Discovering new particles via TikTok dances instead of billion-dollar accelerators? That's budget science at its finest! Next up: quantum entanglement explained through interpretive dance. Chemistry: "It looks complex and probably does something cool" is literally how I described my entire lab report in college. Spoiler: it was just water with food coloring. Biology: Nothing says scientific professionalism like naming a parasite after your ex but making it sound fancy with Latin. "Introducing Toxoplasma Jerkfacium!" Mathematics: Who needs peer review when you have a squillion children with a petition? Finally, a number system even I can understand!

Supermassive Black Hole As A WiFi Password

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Supermassive Black Hole As A WiFi Password

The epic struggle between astronomers and hotel IT departments continues! Both have mastered the art of creating strings of characters that no human should ever have to type. While you're desperately trying to connect to "HiltonGuest_5GHz" with password "p8X$7vB!2zQ&", some astronomer is casually referring to a celestial object as "SDSS J114833.14+193003.2" during a conference presentation. The difference? One gives you terrible internet, the other is a magnificent cosmic entity that could swallow our entire solar system. Choose your incomprehensible string wisely.

Looking Up The History Of Anything In Math And Physics Named After Someone Else

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Looking Up The History Of Anything In Math And Physics Named After Someone Else

The mathematical version of the Wild West standoff! Dig into the history of any mathematical theorem or physical law, and you'll inevitably find that either Euler or Gauss probably did it first. These two were basically the mathematical equivalent of that kid who raises their hand for every question in class. The creepy face just captures that moment when you realize your "new discovery" was actually solved by one of these guys 200+ years ago. Gauss casually invented entire fields of mathematics before breakfast, while Euler was so prolific that mathematicians started naming things after the second person who discovered them just to give others a chance.

Dr. Harvey Needs To Change His File Naming System

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Dr. Harvey Needs To Change His File Naming System

Ever opened a file called "Final_FINAL_v2_ACTUALLY_FINAL.docx"? Dr. Harvey's taking that chaos to a whole new scientific level! His analytical chemistry notes are just hanging out there as "AnalChem2.0.pdf" — which is exactly the kind of filename that gets your research flagged by IT and makes your colleagues question your search history. Pro tip: maybe try "AnalyticalChemistry_v2.pdf" next time, unless you're secretly enjoying those awkward department meeting glances! 🧪📊

Celestial Naming Department: Creativity Not Required

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Celestial Naming Department: Creativity Not Required

The stark contrast between our unimaginative solar system naming conventions (SpongeBob and Patrick) versus the absolutely metal exoplanet names (armed space warriors) is painfully accurate. We literally named our moon "Moon" and our sun "Sun," while astronomers discovering planets 400 light years away are like "This one's HD 189733b orbiting Gliese 436." Our ancestors really phoned it in on the nomenclature front. Next time someone discovers a new celestial body, maybe hand the naming rights to literally anyone besides the person who named Uranus.

Got To Go Fast: The Naming Wars

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The eternal battle between rigorous naming conventions and chaotic protein nomenclature! While organic chemists have their precious IUPAC rules (1-methyl-4-propan-2-ylcyclohexane, anyone?), biochemists are out here naming proteins after video game characters because... why not? The Sonic Hedgehog protein (SHH) is 100% real and critical for embryonic development. And yes, there's also a protein called Pikachurin. Meanwhile, organic chemists are having collective aneurysms watching their meticulously crafted naming system being completely ignored. Science: formal when convenient, wildly unprofessional when fun.

The Great Cosmic Naming Crisis

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Ancient Romans had the luxury of naming planets after their coolest gods, while modern astronomers are stuck with alphanumeric soup! Jupiter gets a majestic name befitting its massive size, but exoplanets get catalog numbers that sound like printer error codes. Imagine discovering a potentially habitable world and having to call it "OGLE-05-390L b" at conferences. No wonder that astronomer is facepalming while throwing darts—they're probably aiming at whoever designed the naming convention. Next groundbreaking discovery? Probably named HD-404-ERROR-PLANET-NOT-FOUND.

I See Nothing (But New Nomenclature)

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Just finished organic chemistry only to discover IUPAC decided to rename everything? Might as well be reading hieroglyphics. Nothing quite like mastering the art of calling a compound 4-methylhexan-2-one only for them to switch it to 2-oxo-4-methylhexane. Chemistry: where naming conventions are about as stable as nitroglycerin in a paint mixer.

The Great Mathematical Land Grab

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Poor John Venn, forever in Euler's shadow! Mathematicians know the pain—Leonhard Euler was the ultimate mathematical colonizer, slapping his name on everything from constants to functions to diagrams. The comic perfectly captures that one mathematician friend who insists on "well, actually"-ing every conversation with unnecessary precision. "Those aren't Venn diagrams, they're technically Euler diagrams!" Meanwhile, John Venn sits in the mathematical afterlife thinking, "I created one thing, and I can't even have that?" The mathematical equivalent of discovering a continent and having someone else's name on all the maps.

Just A Simple Device

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The scientific naming hierarchy in its natural habitat: Linguists: Meticulously crafting a standardized phonetic system for every conceivable language, including fictional Klingon and long-dead Sumerian. Very reasonable. Physicists/Engineers: "This revolutionary quantum computer? We're calling it... a device. That revolutionary fusion reactor? Also a device. The coffee maker I built that accidentally achieved cold fusion? You guessed it—device." Geologists: *grinding teeth* "Actually, we've decided the Earth's core is now 17% hotter and made of different elements than we thought last Tuesday. We'll probably change our minds again before your textbook finishes printing."

Organic Chemistry's Name Game