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What Do You Do If Grandma Finds Your Browser History?
Physics Science Academia
1 month ago 5.7K views 0 shares
What Do You Do If Grandma Finds Your Browser History?
Grandma just discovered your "physics research" and she's not buying it. Those search terms aren't exactly what Feynman had in mind. "Fock Space" is legitimately about quantum mechanics, but paired with "Hairy Black Holes" and "Wiener Sausage" (a real random walk probability concept), you're not fooling anyone. The beauty of physics terminology is its accidental double entendres. "Fokker-Block" equations describe particle dynamics, not whatever grandma thinks you're into. And "LaTeX" might be for formatting equations, but try explaining that with a straight face while she adjusts her glasses in judgment. Next time, maybe clear your history or stick to searching "Schrödinger" instead of "Furry Theorem." Though I suppose your browser history exists in a superposition of states until grandma observes it.

Top Comment Changes The Standard Model
Physics Science Universe
4 months ago 8.7K views 0 shares
Top Comment Changes The Standard Model
Physicists spent decades meticulously mapping out the Standard Model, only for someone on Reddit to rename "charm" to "rizz" and call it a day. Next week: the "yeet boson" and "sus neutrino." This is what happens when you let the internet vote on particle names instead of making grad students suffer through naming conventions. Just wait until TikTok discovers the bottom quark—we'll never hear the end of it.

Astronomy vs Chemistry: The Great Metal Classification Crisis
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4 months ago 11.0K views 0 shares
Astronomy vs Chemistry: The Great Metal Classification Crisis
Chemistry vs Astronomy terminology is the ultimate scientific language barrier! 😂 Chemists have this whole periodic table organized into metals, non-metals, and noble gases. But astronomers? They just went "hydrogen, helium, and... everything else is metal ." Talk about cosmic oversimplification! This hilarious meme perfectly captures the existential crisis of a chemist discovering that astronomers casually call carbon, nitrogen, and even noble gases "metals." In astronomy, any element heavier than helium is considered a "metal" because these elements were formed in stars after the Big Bang (while H and He were primordial). It's like astronomers and chemists developed their terminology in parallel universes! Next thing you know, physicists will start calling everything "particles" and biologists will insist it's all just "organic matter." Science communication is wild!

The Gravity Of The Situation
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5 months ago 12.6K views 0 shares
The Gravity Of The Situation
When life gets tough, regular folks talk about "jumping off buildings" while physics students just want to "experience weightlessness." Same suicidal ideation, just dressed up in fancy terminology! That brief moment between jumping and landing—when you're in free fall and gravity's acceleration cancels out your normal force—is technically weightlessness. It's the same principle astronauts experience in orbit, just with a much shorter duration and significantly worse Yelp reviews. Physics education: where even existential crises get reformulated as thought experiments about gravitational fields.