Scientific knowledge Memes

The bell curve of physics understanding strikes again! At the low end, folks blissfully admit they have no clue what gravity is. At the high end, frustrated PhDs have mental breakdowns after dedicating their lives to questions that remain stubbornly unanswered. Meanwhile, in the comfortable middle, people confidently recite "gravity is spacetime curvature" without understanding a single tensor equation behind it. This is basically the scientific version of the Dunning-Kruger effect on steroids. The more you learn about fundamental physics, the more you realize we're all just sophisticated apes throwing math at mysteries and hoping something sticks. Those quantum fruit loops and nth dimensional strings aren't looking so silly now, are they?