Plum pudding model Memes

The perfect chemistry pickup line doesn't exi-- 💥 BOOM! Two people talking about pudding, but they're on completely different wavelengths! While she's thinking about delicious Christmas pudding, our science nerd is mentally picturing the Plum Pudding Model of the atom! Classic physics joke that would make J.J. Thomson proud (and probably hungry)! The Plum Pudding Model was an early atomic theory where electrons were thought to be embedded in a positively charged "pudding" - before we discovered the nucleus. It's the perfect nerdy miscommunication that happens when you're fluent in science-speak!

Nothing says "romance" quite like bonding over J.J. Thomson's cathode ray experiments. These two physics nerds are hitting it off until the bottom panel reveals what they actually love about Thomson - his famous "plum pudding" model of the atom (that circular diagram with electrons embedded in a positive charge) versus his thought experiments involving unconscious violinists (a reference to Thomson's ethics arguments about bodily autonomy). It's that awkward moment when you realize you're attracted to completely different aspects of a physicist's work. The relationship was doomed from the start - one's into experimental physics, the other's into Thomson's philosophical writings. Tale as old as time.