Force's Twisted Cousin

While everyone else was busy dying from the plague, Newton was at home discovering that white light contains the entire spectrum of colors. Classic Newton move. Quarantined in his country house during the 1665-1666 Great Plague, he's just there with a prism going "rainbow go brrr" while society collapses. The man invented calculus as a side project during this time too, because apparently not even a pandemic can stop the relentless march of physics. Some people stress-bake during lockdowns; Newton revolutionized our understanding of light.

Engineers don't need an invitation to start approximating EVERYTHING! That calculator, those scribbled equations, and the iconic hard hat are basically an engineer's natural habitat. The beauty of engineering is making complex problems solvable by saying "close enough" to the math gods! Next time your engineer friend says "approximately," just know they've probably replaced π with 3 and ignored air resistance to make their life easier. It's not laziness—it's efficiency!

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!

When doctors tell you to lose weight before surgery, they're talking about diet and exercise—not momentarily becoming weightless by jumping! The patient's brilliant "physics hack" of jumping to technically lose weight for a split second is met with Thanos-level disapproval. Gravity doesn't care about your medical loopholes, friend. Nice try exploiting the difference between mass and weight, but doctors prefer their pre-op weight loss to last longer than 0.5 seconds.

The existential crisis every physics student inevitably faces. That moment when you realize the Taylor series in the meme is just the mathematical way of saying "yeah, we're just guessing with extra steps." First-year students enter thinking physics offers perfect models of reality, then discover we're all just truncating infinite series and pretending air resistance doesn't exist. The astronaut with the gun is just enforcing what senior physicists have known for decades—it's approximations all the way down. Spherical cows in vacuum, anyone?

Someone's been paying attention in physics class but skipping cooking 101! The question brilliantly applies thermodynamics to culinary arts in the most ridiculous way possible. Technically, you'd need to slap a chicken at about 1,665 m/s (3,725 mph) to generate enough thermal energy to cook it in one go. That's approximately 23,034 slaps of average force. So unless you've got superhuman slapping abilities or really hate that particular chicken, maybe just use an oven? The beautiful marriage of physics and absurdity here is what makes science both fascinating and hilarious.