New year Memes

The existential crisis of a physicist during New Year's Eve is perfectly captured by Tom's unimpressed face. While everyone's celebrating Earth reaching some random point in its 940 million km elliptical journey around the sun, physicists are sitting there thinking, "You realize January 1st is completely arbitrary, right?" The Gregorian calendar could've started anywhere in our orbit, but here we are, setting off explosives because we completed another revolution around a G-type main-sequence star. It's like celebrating your car's odometer hitting 100,000 km while you're still driving on the highway.

Physicists reading the newspaper on January 1st like... 👀 "So you're telling me everyone's losing their minds over the Earth reaching some completely arbitrary point in its elliptical orbit? The cosmic indifference is strong with this one!" The Tom-from-Tom-and-Jerry expression perfectly captures that mix of irritation and superiority when you realize calendars are just human constructs while the universe continues its business completely unbothered by our champagne and countdowns. Time is relative, but the physics eye-roll is universal!

The dedicated physicist's New Year celebration lasts exactly ONE MINUTE! While mere mortals are busy with "wow sparkle" and "much bang" (hello Doge meme!), our hero immediately returns to Griffiths' Electrodynamics textbook at 12:01 AM. That's not dedication—that's a SUPERPOSITION of dedication and madness! The gradient of your social life approaches zero as the partial derivative of your understanding of Maxwell's equations approaches infinity. Worth it? ABSOLUTELY. Those electromagnetic fields won't solve themselves, people!