Reddit Memes

Reddit intellectuals dropping historical physics knowledge while LinkedIn users are posting "I'm humbled to announce..." for the 5th time this week. The 1927 Solvay Conference was basically the Avengers of quantum physics—Einstein and Bohr duking it out over whether God plays dice with the universe. These science titans were casually reshaping reality while wearing fancy suits and mustaches that could win awards on their own. Next time someone brags about their LinkedIn network, just remember: your Reddit feed might be teaching you about the exact moment 17 Nobel Prize winners gathered to argue whether cats can be simultaneously dead and alive.

Whoever created this has completely broken physics in the most delightful way possible. Instead of actual elementary particles, we've got quarks labeled as "Boomer," "Millennial," and "Gen Z" with corresponding prices like "$1B" and "$800M." The force carriers? Just "mental illnesses" including "glueon" (with actual glue), "Hugs" (with an emoji!), and my personal favorite—"photo" with a camera icon. This is what happens when you let Reddit redesign fundamental physics. The Standard Model is challenging enough for my first-year students without turning bosons into "W bozo" and "Γ bozo" or replacing leptons with "negatron neutrino" and "mewtrino." I've spent 30 years teaching this stuff, and now I have to explain why "love" is apparently a fundamental force with a price tag of $1.5M. Feynman would be rolling in his grave... or perhaps laughing hysterically. Either way, this is what theoretical physics looks like after you've had too much coffee and not enough sleep for 23 consecutive days.