Squidward Memes

When your physics professor tries to explain temperature scales but you're a visual learner. The meme brilliantly shows why scientists prefer Kelvin - it's the only scale where 295 lets you chill in a hammock instead of becoming a flaming squid! Notice how 21°C is pleasant, but 21°F freezes poor Squidward solid? Meanwhile, 21 Kelvin would freeze your atoms so hard even quantum mechanics would call it quits (-252°C!). The best part? 295 Kelvin is room temperature (~22°C), while 295°F or 295°C would literally turn you into a chemistry experiment. Remember kids: your temperature scale choice might be the difference between relaxation and spontaneous combustion!

The perfect visual guide to temperature scales that no textbook will ever include. 21°C is hammock weather, while 21°F freezes Squidward solid. Meanwhile, 21 Kelvin? Still frozen, because that's -252°C and would literally shatter most materials. At 69°C, Squidward is literally on fire, but at 69°F he's back to hammock lounging. 69 Kelvin? Still a squid-sicle. The punchline comes at 295 Kelvin (room temperature), where our cephalopod friend finally gets to relax, while both 295°C and 295°F have him combusting. This is why scientists prefer Kelvin—no negative numbers, just the sweet certainty of knowing exactly how much atomic jiggling is happening.

Nothing like declaring physics "complete" right before someone revolutionizes the entire field! Lord Kelvin's infamous "physics is finished" statement aged about as well as milk in the Sahara. Poor guy thought we just needed more decimal places, then Planck comes along with quantum mechanics and basically says "hold my beer" to classical physics. The ultimate scientific mic drop that left Kelvin looking like Squidward after someone mentioned the word "future." This is basically the 1900s version of "I've seen everything" right before the internet was invented.

Physics students running for their lives the moment centrifugal forces enter the chat! The panic is real because technically, centrifugal force isn't even a "real" force—it's what physicists call a "fictitious force" that only appears in rotating reference frames. That's why your professor gets that eye twitch whenever someone mentions it. The proper term is "centripetal force" pointing inward, but try explaining that to Squidward as he's sprinting away from his laptop!

The meme brilliantly captures the historical struggle of women scientists like Chien-Shiung Wu, who performed the crucial experiment disproving the conservation of parity but watched two male colleagues win the Nobel Prize for the theory instead. That wide-eyed, shocked Squidward face is basically every female scientist throughout history watching their work get Columbus'd by male colleagues. Wu's experiment literally changed our understanding of physics, yet she got the scientific equivalent of "thanks for the help, sweetie." The scientific community's history of overlooking women's contributions is so consistent it could qualify as its own natural law—Newton's Fourth Law: Female Achievement Tends to Remain Uncredited Unless Acted Upon by Massive Public Outrage.