Scientific hierarchy Memes

The most scientifically accurate Venn diagram doesn't exi— Oh wait, here it is! Nothing unites the STEM fields quite like their mutual disdain for each other. Physicists mock engineers who can't win Nobel Prizes, mathematicians scoff at both while being utterly incomprehensible to normal humans, and everyone agrees chemists are inferior (except chemists, who are too busy making things explode to notice). The beautiful irony? They all desperately need each other to make actual scientific progress. It's like a dysfunctional academic family where everyone thinks they're the smart one.

Physics students maintaining their composure when asked for a well-structured joke, but absolutely losing their minds at the suggestion that biology isn't "real science." The interdepartmental rivalry continues. Meanwhile, biologists are too busy counting fruit flies to notice, and chemists are just happy someone else is being picked on for once.

The physics hierarchy as determined by some grad student who should be writing their dissertation instead. S-tier features the untouchables: Einstein (relativity guy), Newton (apple enthusiast), and Archimedes (bath time eureka man). A-tier has Dirac (equation hermit), Juan Maldacena (holographic principle wizard), and Steven Weinberg (electroweak unification architect). Meanwhile, B-tier holds Feynman (bongo-playing diagram inventor) and Schrödinger (cat murderer by thought experiment). The empty C and D tiers are where the rest of us apparently belong. Just waiting for the comments section to erupt into theoretical warfare.

The eternal academic rivalry captured in its purest form! Physicists looking down with pity on chemists while chemists respond with complete indifference is basically the scientific equivalent of siblings fighting in the backseat of a car. This perfectly encapsulates the disciplinary superiority complex that runs through STEM fields. Physicists see themselves as dealing with fundamental laws of the universe while viewing chemistry as just "applied physics." Meanwhile, chemists are too busy making actual useful compounds to care about physicists' theoretical musings. The real joke? Biologists are off-camera wondering why these two are fighting when they're both just creating problems that engineers will eventually have to solve.