Thermostat Memes

The thermal warfare has escalated to differential equations! Someone's protecting their perfect 73° office temperature by posting the Navier-Stokes equations as the "thermostat password." These infamous fluid dynamics equations are notoriously difficult to solve—they literally have a million-dollar prize for certain solutions. Talk about passive-aggressive genius! The temperature gap between the two thermostats (71° vs 73°) perfectly captures the eternal cold war fought in offices worldwide. Next level move: requiring a PhD in fluid mechanics just to adjust the AC.

The thermostat in physics labs is apparently set to the Boltzmann constant—a fundamental constant of nature that relates temperature to energy. The dial shows it can be adjusted between 1.418×10 -23 J/K and 1.351×10 -23 J/K, which is hilarious because the actual value is 1.380649×10 -23 J/K. So they've basically got a thermostat that can only be set to "slightly wrong" or "even more wrong." Classic physicist humor—pretending extreme precision while missing the mark entirely. This is why experimentalists and theorists can never share an office.