Science history Memes

This meme is pure physics gold! It plays with the idea that if quantum mechanics could have been developed theoretically before experimental evidence demanded it (as Aaronson suggested), then maybe ancient Egyptians could have built "quantum pyramids" instead of classical ones! The top graph shows the famous Bell correlation curves - the key difference between quantum (blue) and classical (red) physics. In classical physics, correlations can't exceed certain bounds, but quantum mechanics breaks these limits! And the punchline? Classical Egyptians built sharp, distinct pyramids with clear edges (like classical physics with definite states). But "Quantum Egyptians" would've built blurry, wave-like pyramids existing in multiple states simultaneously! 🤣 Schrödinger's pyramid, anyone?

From unga-bunga to CERN-bunga! 🤪 Prehistoric humans: *bangs rocks to make fire* Modern physicists: *builds $10 billion particle accelerator to smash subatomic particles at near-light speed* Evolution is just a fancy word for "finding increasingly expensive ways to satisfy our primal urge to crash things together." The Large Hadron Collider is basically humanity's ultimate rock-smashing upgrade - except now we're probing the fundamental secrets of the universe instead of just trying to cook a mammoth steak! Progress? Maybe. Hilarious cosmic irony? ABSOLUTELY! 💥

The irony of calling something "Young" when it's over 200 years old is peak physics humor. That wide-eyed cat is all of us in engineering class when we realize the "Young" modulus was developed by Thomas Young in the early 1800s. Nothing like measuring material stiffness with a concept older than electricity! Engineers still using this ancient formula while typing on smartphones is basically the scientific equivalent of writing emails on a typewriter. The elasticity of materials hasn't changed, but our ability to make memes about them certainly has!

The ultimate physics nerd dream come true! 🤓 When you're hoping for the mathematical theory book but end up with the ACTUAL historical copy of Newton's Principia! That's like asking for a toy spaceship and getting a real NASA rocket instead! These ancient tomes behind glass are probably worth more than a semester of college tuition. Talk about relationship goals - someone who knows the difference between wanting to read about gravity and owning a piece of scientific history that literally changed our understanding of the universe. Newton would be proud!

That innocent-looking jug lid is actually the tip of a nuclear bomb core. The bottom image shows the infamous "demon core" from Los Alamos - a subcritical mass of plutonium that killed two scientists in separate incidents when they accidentally let the hemispheres get too close. Turns out your kitchen decor and catastrophic nuclear chain reactions have more in common than you'd think. Just another day in 1940s physics: "Oops, dropped my screwdriver, guess I'll die of acute radiation poisoning."