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The Scientific Hierarchy Of Smugness
Academia Science Math Physics Biology
1 day ago 3.4K views 0 shares
The Scientific Hierarchy Of Smugness
Behold the eternal academic food chain! The top panel shows sciences arranged by "purity" with physicists smugly declaring dominance while mathematicians exist in their own dimension entirely. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the dirty secret - as complexity increases, everyone's just desperately simplifying reality to make their equations work! This is basically every interdepartmental faculty meeting distilled into its purest form. Physicists think they're the apex predators of science until they need to calculate something with actual real-world messiness. Then suddenly it's "assume a spherical cow" time! And poor mathematicians, off in their abstract universe where numbers don't even need units. They're playing 5D chess while everyone else is arguing about whose science has more prestige. Truly the introverts of the academic world!

Analytical Solution Vs Numerical Solution Meme
Math Academia Research Science Engineering
19 days ago 3.6K views 0 shares
Analytical Solution Vs Numerical Solution Meme
The eternal struggle of mathematicians everywhere! When your co-author suggests using numerical methods because "there's no analytical solution," it's like they've committed a cardinal sin against mathematical purity. Analytical solutions are the elegant, closed-form expressions that give you the exact answer. Numerical methods? Those are just... approximations. Shudder . It's like being offered a microwave dinner when you were expecting a five-course meal prepared by a Michelin-star chef. Pure mathematicians would rather spend six months finding an analytical solution than six minutes coding up a numerical approximation. "Sorry, I don't speak wrong" is the perfect response to anyone suggesting we abandon the search for mathematical truth!

Fields Arranged By Scientific Ego
Science Academia Math Physics Biology
1 month ago 6.9K views 0 shares
Fields Arranged By Scientific Ego
The scientific hierarchy in its full glory! Physicists strutting around like they're the purest science ("It's nice to be on top!"), while mathematicians are so abstract they don't even notice anyone else exists. 🤓 But flip the script to complexity and suddenly everyone's defensive about their turf! Sociologists dealing with unpredictable humans, psychologists ignoring consciousness because it's TOO HARD, and physicists perking up at the mention of "small-scale interactions" like quantum gossip they can't resist. Meanwhile, mathematicians are off in their own dimension, manipulating numbers without units like some kind of reality-free wizards. The ultimate scientific family feud where everyone thinks their problems are the hardest!

Time To Recrystallize
Chemistry Lab-life Research Science
3 months ago 9.2K views 0 shares
Time To Recrystallize
The eternal struggle of organic chemists everywhere! 90% yield? That's worth bragging about at the next department meeting. 90% purity? That's worth crying about in the supply closet. Nothing says "back to square one" like discovering your supposedly pure compound is actually a chemical jambalaya. The recrystallization gods are cruel masters who demand sacrifices of time, solvents, and occasionally your will to live.