Great Things Happening At MIT

From speed to velocity to momentum—the physics escalation of phone battery panic is too real! Nothing transforms a human into a vector quantity faster than that 1% notification. First you're just moving fast, then suddenly direction matters, and finally you remember that your 80kg body hurtling toward an outlet actually has significant momentum. Newton would be proud of how quickly we apply his laws when our digital lifelines are at stake. The progression from scalar to vector to conserved quantity is basically the three stages of battery grief.

Nuclear engineers watching this meme: *eye twitching intensifies* The irony is delicious! Nuclear power plants are essentially billion-dollar kettles. We split atoms with technology that could power civilizations for centuries... just to boil water and spin turbines. It's like using a supercomputer to run a calculator app. Fun fact: Despite all our technological advances, nearly all electricity generation (coal, nuclear, natural gas) works on the same principle - heat water, make steam, spin turbine. We've just gotten increasingly creative about the "heat water" part!

The irony is just *chef's kiss* - dark matter is literally defined by the fact that we can't see it! Scientists have spent decades detecting it only through gravitational effects, while still having no idea what it actually is. It makes up roughly 27% of the universe's mass-energy content (that part is accurate!), but claiming to "see it" is like saying you've counted all the fish in the ocean by looking at ripples on the surface. And the Einstein with better hair comparison? Pretty sure Albert would trade his entire theory of relativity just to escape this particular parallel universe.

Theoretical physicists: "Let me explain spacetime curvature with 47 equations and a blackboard full of math that would make Einstein need a nap." Everyone else: "Just fold a piece of paper and poke a pencil through it. Boom. Wormhole." This is the perfect illustration of how science communication works in the wild. You can either spend 8 years getting a PhD to understand the Einstein-Rosen bridge equations... or just stab a pencil through paper and call it a day. Both are technically correct, but only one will keep people awake during your TED talk.

Parents buying "Quantum Physics for Babies" thinking it's cute, not realizing they're creating tiny existential physicists who'll question the fabric of reality before they can tie their shoes. The child's inevitable descent into alcoholism by age 3 is simply conservation of energy at work - converting quantum anxiety into ethanol-based coping mechanisms. Just another day in the multiverse of parenting mistakes.

Every physics student ever: "I don't need to memorize the formula because I can derive it if necessary" - and then spends 30 minutes frantically scribbling equations during the exam while having a complete mental breakdown! The creepy clown face perfectly captures that moment of terror when you realize you should've just memorized the darn thing. Derivations are fun until you're racing against the clock with your professor watching you suffer!