Portals Memes

Popular Mechanics has officially jumped the shark with their groundbreaking report on interdimensional travel. "Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Found a Portal to the Fifth Dimension" - followed by "It's probably in this weird particle." Sure, and my coffee mug contains a wormhole to Andromeda. Theoretical physics has been reduced to clickbait headlines from December 2024 that haven't even happened yet. The only fifth dimension I'm interested in is the band that sang "Age of Aquarius." At this point, Professor Farnsworth's sentiment about not wanting to live on this planet makes perfect sense - especially when our scientific journalism has devolved into "weird particles" and portals conveniently located in the woods like some discount IKEA furniture.

Thermodynamics police, open up! This "infinite energy" scheme is basically the physics equivalent of trying to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. The meme shows a perpetual motion machine that violates conservation of energy by creating an endless water cycle through portals, then harvesting the falling water's energy with a wheel generator. Here's the problem: energy can't be created or destroyed (First Law of Thermodynamics), and systems always lose energy to entropy (Second Law). Even if portal technology existed, you'd need more energy to maintain the portals than you'd get from the falling water. It's like trying to charge your phone by plugging it into itself. The troll face says it all - this is precisely the kind of "genius solution" that makes physicists wake up in cold sweats.