Einstein Speaks Gen Z

The duality of lab life in one perfect sketch! Remember that first magical moment with scientific equipment? "OMG A LASER!!!" But fast forward through 50 repetitions of the same experiment, and suddenly that cool laser is your sworn enemy. The honeymoon phase of science wears off FAST when you're aligning that beam for the 50th time or recalibrating because someone bumped the table. The pure joy of discovery transforms into a vendetta against your equipment. Every researcher's journey from wide-eyed enthusiasm to battle-hardened veteran!

Einstein never said this, but it's still hilariously wrong in all the right ways. The grandfather paradox is precisely what happens if you murder your ancestor—you couldn't exist to do the murdering in the first place! It's like saying "it's not a diet if you eat the cake before stepping on the scale." The quote perfectly captures how fake science quotes spread faster than actual physics knowledge. Next they'll tell us Newton discovered gravity when an apple hit him in the face while he was trying to invent the iPhone.

Someone clearly skipped their high school geometry classes. Flying higher doesn't mean traveling in a triangle! The Earth is curved, so the shortest path between two points is actually a great circle route (geodesic), not whatever this bizarre triangular flight path suggests. If pilots actually flew like this diagram, we'd all have enough time to watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy—extended editions—before landing. The real kicker? Even if this were true, the Pythagorean theorem is sobbing in the corner right now because those distances don't remotely add up. Next they'll tell us planes need to dodge the firmament.

Physics students discovering they can write velocity as m·Hz instead of m/s and feeling like they've broken the matrix. The dimensional analysis checks out (Hz = 1/s), but your professor will still mark it wrong while muttering something about "convention" and "professional standards." Sure, you could also write it as m·s -1 to really show off, but at what cost? Your social life?

Someone with a thermodynamics textbook and too much time on their hands has created the perfect phase diagram for gender identity. The supercooled "girltwinк" state is particularly brilliant—metastable until disturbed, then crystallizing into a "face-center cubic girl structure." I've stared at phase diagrams for 15 years and never once considered the "supercritical genderfluid" region or the "femboy triple point." My colleagues would absolutely publish this in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

Medieval physicists trying to split the atom be like: "Just hit it really hard with this stick." The meme shows a primitive version of a particle accelerator—a wooden staff with a metal chain attached to what appears to be two halves of a metallic sphere. Spoiler alert: Neutrons don't respond well to blunt force trauma! The energy required to split an atom is approximately 1 million electron volts, which is slightly more than your average medieval blacksmith could generate with a wooden stick. But hey, points for creativity in experimental design! At least they wouldn't have to worry about nuclear fallout when their experiment inevitably failed.