Breaking The Law (Of Physics)

Quantum physics' greatest family feud. George Thompson says electrons are waves, while his dad Joseph insists they're particles. Meanwhile, the Nobel Prize committee hovers above like a disappointed parent saying "Why not both?" The double-slit experiment - bringing families together and tearing physics apart since 1927. Schrödinger's cat is just glad it wasn't invited to this Thanksgiving dinner.

Oganesson (element 118) is having an existential crisis, and honestly, who can blame it? This superheavy element only exists for less than a millisecond before radioactively decaying. Scientists literally create it in a lab, and before the poor thing can even figure out its place in the periodic table—poof, it's gone! It's basically the mayfly of chemistry, except instead of living for 24 hours, it gets about 0.0000001 seconds to contemplate its noble gas classification. Imagine being so unstable that researchers have only made about 5 atoms of you... EVER. No wonder it's confused about its identity—it barely has time to introduce itself to the neighboring elements before disintegrating!

The mighty Atlas of physics! That single electron shouldering the burden of all human civilization is the unsung hero of existence. Without these subatomic workhorses, we'd literally fall apart faster than my funding applications. The electron—weighing about 0.00000000000000000000000000091 kg—supports everything from your smartphone to your neural activity. Talk about an efficiency model we should all aspire to! Next time you're complaining about your workload, remember this little negative particle carrying the weight of human existence while being roughly 1/1836 the mass of a proton. No wonder it looks tired.

This brilliant physics pun is giving me LIFE! Newton tells his student "Kid, you've got potential" and then as the student falls off a height, Newton adds "lots and lots of potential..." 😂 It's playing on the double meaning of "potential" - both having promise as a student AND potential energy in physics (which increases with height). The higher you go, the more potential energy you have... until gravity turns it into kinetic energy during the fall! Newton's just standing there watching his physics lesson play out in real-time. Talk about hands-on education! Nothing teaches gravitational potential energy like a little free fall demonstration!

Physics students everywhere are SCREAMING right now! The Xi (Ξ) symbol is notorious for being the most annoying Greek letter to write by hand. This masterpiece shows the true evolution - from ambitious Moai statue to simplified squiggle in just three desperate steps. Every physics student starts with grand intentions but ends up with what looks like a drunk snake having a seizure. The final panel's "And 1...2...3... a xi thing!" is basically the academic equivalent of "draw the rest of the owl." Pure genius for anyone who's ever battled notation during a timed exam!

Flexing about launching a photon at 100% the speed of light is like bragging you got water wet. Photons literally cannot travel at any other speed in vacuum! Even Einstein's mind-bending relativity confirms this cosmic speed limit is non-negotiable. The photon doesn't have a choice - it's born at light speed and lives its entire massless existence at that exact velocity. It's the particle physics equivalent of bragging you breathe oxygen. Congratulations on your "achievement" that literally every light source in the universe has been casually doing since the Big Bang.