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The Cosmic Pot Calling The Kettle Dark
Physics Universe Science Astronomy
1 day ago 11.8K views 0 shares
The Cosmic Pot Calling The Kettle Dark
That physics textbook problem is savage ! Political science majors getting roasted while physicists can't even account for 95% of the universe's mass-energy. The theoretical physicist's comeback is pure gold - essentially saying "yeah, we're just guessing about dark matter and dark energy too!" The scientific equivalent of "I know you are but what am I?" except with cosmic existential implications. Nothing like bonding over shared epistemological uncertainty!

From Textbook To Trailer: The Chemistry Evolution
Chemistry Science Academia
18 days ago 39.7K views 0 shares
From Textbook To Trailer: The Chemistry Evolution
The true chemistry pipeline: first you learn it from a textbook, then you apply it in a trailer in the New Mexico desert. Every organic chemistry professor secretly wishes their career had the excitement of Walter White's. Instead, we're just mixing compounds that smell bad while students fall asleep. The only thing we're "breaking" is our spirit when grading lab reports where students confuse enantiomers for the 47th time. At least the periodic table elements in the show logo are accurate—unlike half the molecular structures I see on student exams.

Canadian Kinematics
Physics Science Math
29 days ago 22.5K views 0 shares
Canadian Kinematics
Only in Canada would a physics problem involve a hockey puck colliding with a rubber octopus on ice! The problem is actually using conservation of momentum (puck momentum = combined momentum after collision), but I'm more concerned about why fans are throwing cephalopods during hockey games. Is this some bizarre Canadian ritual I missed? Next chapter: "A moose with mass 700kg collides with a maple syrup truck traveling at 25 m/s..."

Happy New Year Everyb-...Anyway, Back To Work
Physics Academia Science Scientists
29 days ago 21.5K views 0 shares
Happy New Year Everyb-...Anyway, Back To Work
The dedicated physicist's New Year celebration lasts exactly ONE MINUTE! While mere mortals are busy with "wow sparkle" and "much bang" (hello Doge meme!), our hero immediately returns to Griffiths' Electrodynamics textbook at 12:01 AM. That's not dedication—that's a SUPERPOSITION of dedication and madness! The gradient of your social life approaches zero as the partial derivative of your understanding of Maxwell's equations approaches infinity. Worth it? ABSOLUTELY. Those electromagnetic fields won't solve themselves, people!

The Viscosity Equation Of Despair
Physics Engineering Academia
1 month ago 31.6K views 0 shares
The Viscosity Equation Of Despair
Just your typical fluid mechanics textbook casually suggesting suicide between viscosity equations. Nothing says "I understand rheology" quite like a textbook that knows exactly how soul-crushing these differential equations can be. The author clearly experienced the existential dread that comes with trying to model non-Newtonian fluids. Honestly, this is the most honest academic writing I've ever seen.

The Incredible Shrinking Anatomist
Biology Evolution Science
1 month ago 15.1K views 0 shares
The Incredible Shrinking Anatomist
When your comparative anatomy textbook has a human identity crisis! This French book tried to show how horse and human skeletons are similar by... *checks notes*... sticking a tiny human INSIDE the horse?! Looks like someone skipped the "scale" chapter in their scientific illustration course. Next up: demonstrating bird flight by showing a miniature pilot in the cockpit of an eagle. This is what happens when you let the intern handle the diagrams after three espressos and zero supervision. Homologous structures are fascinating, but this bizarre horse-human centaur mashup is giving evolutionary biology nightmares!

No Mom, I'm Dating The Hamiltonian
Physics Science Math Academia
2 months ago 21.0K views 0 shares
No Mom, I'm Dating The Hamiltonian
Who needs a girlfriend when you've got quantum field theory to keep you warm at night? This poor physics student's mom is hoping for holiday romance, but all she's getting is a textbook full of Hamiltonian equations and delta functions! The relationship status? It's complicated — just like those integrals. Dating might be uncertain, but at least the Hamiltonian is conserved over time! Unlike your social life when you're busy calculating frequency expressions and performing d³p integrals instead of performing small talk at parties.

Resistors? You Mean Frogs?
Physics Engineering Biology
2 months ago 21.4K views 0 shares
Resistors? You Mean Frogs?
Engineering textbooks getting desperate for relatable examples! This problem has students modeling a frog as an electrical component with "resistance" based on how violently it kicks when zapped with current. The perfect intersection of electrical engineering and animal cruelty that absolutely nobody asked for. Next chapter: "Calculate the capacitance of a hamster in a microwave." Physics professors really out here thinking "how do I make Ohm's Law memorable? I know—ELECTROCUTED AMPHIBIANS!"

The Massless Rope Conspiracy
Physics Academia Science
2 months ago 21.7K views 0 shares
The Massless Rope Conspiracy
Physics textbooks love to exist in a fantasy realm where ropes have no mass, pulleys have no friction, and cows are perfect spheres. The "massless rope" is the physics equivalent of unicorns—completely imaginary but essential for solving those torturous homework problems. Meanwhile, non-physics students overhearing this nonsense must think we've lost our minds. The perfect reaction is indeed that suspicious Tom face—like "are these people okay?" Physics students casually discussing impossible objects as if they're grocery shopping for massless ropes at the store is peak academic absurdity.

Why Are The Algebras Lying?
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2 months ago 22.7K views 0 shares
Why Are The Algebras Lying?
The pun is strong with this one. Despite the name, Lie Algebras aren't actually lying to us—they're named after mathematician Sophus Lie (pronounced "Lee"). Nothing says "physics humor" quite like spending $150 on a textbook only to realize the fundamental mathematical structure of particle physics is based on a guy whose name sounds like a falsehood. Graduate students stare at this cover for hours while questioning their life choices and wondering if the unified theory will ever unify with their understanding.

When Typography Violates The Laws Of Physics
Physics Science Academia
2 months ago 20.4K views 0 shares
When Typography Violates The Laws Of Physics
The typographical error that transforms "Joule's Experiment" into "Joule'Sexperiment" is giving energy conservation a whole new meaning. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but apparently spaces between words can. Just like how my coffee mysteriously disappears from the lab fridge despite being clearly labeled. Conservation of matter, not of boundaries.

The Shear Absurdity Of Linear Algebra
Math Academia Science
2 months ago 24.2K views 0 shares
The Shear Absurdity Of Linear Algebra
Nothing says "I understand linear transformations" quite like watching a sheep get mathematically distorted. That poor animal went from "baa" to "baaaaaaaaaaaa" real quick. Shear transformations: turning perfectly normal farm animals into Salvador Dali paintings since linear algebra was invented. And they wonder why math students have strange dreams.