Electrons About To Have Their Wave-Like Properties Outed

Nothing gets a scientist more excited than fresh unit prefixes! While normal people wake their partners for emergencies, physicists lose their minds over the International System of Units expanding to include ronna (10 27 ) and quetta (10 30 ). Finally, a convenient way to express the mass of Jupiter without writing zeros until your hand cramps! This is basically the scientific equivalent of Supreme dropping a new collection. Measurement nerds have been waiting DECADES for this moment.

Engineers staring at square waves on an oscilloscope while calling them "sin waves" is peak technical humor. The joke hinges on the dual meaning: these are clearly not mathematical sine waves (smooth curves), but they might indeed be "sin" waves if you consider how much they're violating fundamental signal processing principles. That oscilloscope is displaying the electronic equivalent of mathematical blasphemy.

This meme is playing with two different meanings of "collapse" - one from quantum physics and one from economics! The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics says a wavefunction "collapses" when observed. Meanwhile, millennials are begging the housing market to collapse so they can finally afford a home. The stick figure is basically every 30-something physicist with student loans looking at those ever-rising property values and thinking "I'd have better luck with Schrödinger's mortgage."

The perfect romance that physics never wanted! Wavelength and frequency are getting cozy while amplitude stands awkwardly in the corner like a superhero third wheel. It's the ultimate physics love triangle! What makes this hilarious is that wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional (when one increases, the other decreases) - they're literally the cosmic definition of "opposites attract." Meanwhile, amplitude is completely independent of both, just watching their relationship with that stoic superhero face. Next time your physics professor drones on about wave equations, just picture this bizarre love triangle and try not to snort-laugh in the lecture hall!

Forget Thanos—the real supervillain is the physicist who collects quantum interpretation stones like they're going out of style. Each stone represents a different way to make sense of quantum mechanics while still not understanding it. From "reality is subjective" (translation: we have no idea what's happening) to "retrocausality" (when your future self messes with your past experiments), this cosmic gauntlet lets you bend physics to your will without ever having to admit you're just as confused as everyone else. The Copenhagen interpretation never stood a chance against this kind of theoretical firepower.

Dating in physics departments be like: "I like you because of your attractive gravitational field, not just because you can explain string theory." The bottom panel reveals what they're really into - Hawking's cosmology and hardcore quantum mechanics. Nothing says "I'm intellectually stimulated" quite like discussing wave function collapse over coffee. These two aren't just checking each other out; they're checking out each other's understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe. Scientific flirting at its finest!