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The Exact Moment In The History Of Science When A Famous Young Genius From Lincolnshire Invents Gravity
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The Exact Moment In The History Of Science When A Famous Young Genius From Lincolnshire Invents Gravity
The internet's historical reenactment of Newton's "discovery" is pure gold! Young Isaac just chilling in Lincolnshire, minding his business, when suddenly - BONK - an apple falls and he's like "Hold up... objects attract each other?!" The meme brilliantly mocks the oversimplified version of how gravity was discovered that we all learned in elementary school. In reality, Newton developed his theory through rigorous mathematical work and observation, not from a random fruit assault. But imagining him dramatically falling backward as if the concept physically knocked him over? That's peak scientific comedy right there.

Happy Newtonmass To Everybody!
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7 days ago 18.9K views 0 shares
Happy Newtonmass To Everybody!
Celebrating the nerdiest holiday of all! This meme brilliantly combines Newton's famous fig cookie inspiration with a Star Wars pun. "May the ma BE WITH YOU" is playing on both "may the Force be with you" and Newton's second law (F=ma). That's right, the Force equals mass times acceleration! Isaac Newton was born on December 25th, making "Newtonmass" the perfect alternative holiday for science geeks who'd rather celebrate gravity than gravy. The fig newton in the image is *chef's kiss* - the perfect visual representation of both the man and his legendary apple encounter.

The Alchemist's Irony
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7 days ago 11.8K views 0 shares
The Alchemist's Irony
The irony is delicious. On the left, Sir Isaac Newton—father of calculus, optics pioneer, and gravity's BFF—who secretly spent decades trying to turn lead into gold through alchemy. Meanwhile, the meme mockingly points at someone else as the fool. Plot twist: Newton wrote more about alchemy than physics, filling notebooks with mystical nonsense about the philosopher's stone. History's greatest scientific mind wasted years chasing magical transmutation while developing the fundamental laws of physics on the side. Next time you feel stupid for believing something ridiculous, remember that even geniuses have their blind spots—usually about the size of a periodic table.

Weight Is Not Mass
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11 days ago 20.3K views 0 shares
Weight Is Not Mass
This is physics humor at its finest! The trick question asks which weighs more: 1kg of steel or feathers. The clever third person points out they have the same mass (1kg), but reminds us that weight (W=mg) depends on gravitational pull! So technically, if the feathers were on the Moon and the steel on Earth, they'd have different weights despite identical mass. Physics teachers everywhere are silently nodding with approval right now!

Physics Homework: The Great Formula Shuffle
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14 days ago 26.9K views 0 shares
Physics Homework: The Great Formula Shuffle
Physics forums in a nutshell! 😂 Two random users frantically copying each other's homework but switching between Newton and Coulomb's formulas for gravitational and electrostatic forces. The beauty here? Both equations have the same structure! Newton's law of gravitation (F = G·m₁m₂/r²) and Coulomb's law (F = k·q₁q₂/r²) are mathematical twins - one for masses, one for charges. It's the perfect representation of that panicked "I have no idea what I'm doing but I'll make it look different enough" energy that haunts every physics student's nightmares. The desperate glances, the hasty scribbling... pure academic chaos!

Newton 🤝 Coulomb: Inverse Square Soulmates
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Newton 🤝 Coulomb: Inverse Square Soulmates
Two scientific giants, one mathematical structure. Newton's law of gravitation and Coulomb's law of electrostatic force are practically identical twins separated at birth. Both follow the inverse square relationship where force decreases with the square of distance. The only difference? Masses versus charges. It's like they both independently discovered the universe's favorite copy-paste template. Nature really said "why create new math when the old one works perfectly fine?"

Newton And Coulomb: The Original Homework Copiers
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14 days ago 18.0K views 0 shares
Newton And Coulomb: The Original Homework Copiers
Look at these two scientific copycats in their natural habitat! Newton's over there with his gravitational force equation (F = G m₁m₂/d²) thinking he's all original, while Coulomb's giving him the side-eye because his electrostatic force equation (F = k q₁q₂/r²) is basically the same formula with different letters! 😂 It's the ultimate "can I copy your homework?" moment in physics history! Except Coulomb came along nearly 100 years later, so it's more like "I'll just change it enough so the teacher won't notice." The universe really does have a formula fetish for inverse square relationships!

Shifting Point Of Reference Is So Heck Cool!
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15 days ago 25.9K views 0 shares
Shifting Point Of Reference Is So Heck Cool!
Newton's third law gets a confidence boost. The difference between "Earth pulls me down" and "I attract Earth" is just ego and a frame of reference shift. Technically both statements are correct—gravity is mutual. Just imagine the planet rushing up to meet you because it finds you so attractive. That's not just physics, that's romance at 9.8 m/s².

The Mysterious Third Force
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16 days ago 13.6K views 0 shares
The Mysterious Third Force
The eternal physics conundrum! Birds somehow defy Newton's laws with their middle-finger to gravity. While everything else plummets earthward at 9.8 m/s², these feathered aerodynamic wizards just... don't? The meme perfectly captures that third mysterious force that counteracts gravity—lift generation through wing shape and air pressure differentials. It's basically birds exploiting Bernoulli's principle while the rest of us are stuck with "apple falls from tree" physics. Nature's way of saying "I've mastered fluid dynamics and you haven't."

It Sounds Better In Latin
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16 days ago 18.5K views 0 shares
It Sounds Better In Latin
Nothing elevates your intellectual status quite like rebranding "science" as "natural philosophy." Suddenly your lab coat transforms into a tweed jacket with elbow patches, and instead of running experiments, you're "contemplating the fundamental truths of the physical world." Newton wasn't discovering gravity; he was having a profound metaphysical revelation under an apple tree. Same research, fancier business cards.

Theory Vs. Practice: The Mechanic's Dilemma
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19 days ago 9.5K views 0 shares
Theory Vs. Practice: The Mechanic's Dilemma
The difference between theory and practice summed up in one glorious image! On the left: the textbook showing a lone mechanic struggling under a car. On the right: the solutions manual reveals the REAL approach - grab your friends, have someone else do the work, and supervise from a comfortable perch! Newton's Fourth Law: For every physics problem, there exists an equal and opposite shortcut that involves other people's labor. This is basically every physics student's journey from "I'll figure it out myself" to "I wonder if someone posted the answer on Chegg?" 🔧

It Was Always Called Science
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21 days ago 23.5K views 0 shares
It Was Always Called Science
That moment when you realize your entire field was just rebranded. Before Newton, Galileo, and the gang showed up with their fancy experiments and math, people were already trying to figure out how nature worked—they just called it "natural philosophy." Same product, better packaging. Modern scientists are basically philosophers with cooler equipment and grant proposals.