I Might Have Been Breaking The Laws Of Physics

Finding an outdated physics textbook that still defines the kilogram using Le Grand K is like discovering someone using a flip phone in 2024! For the uninitiated, Le Grand K was a literal platinum-iridium cylinder kept in a vault in France that defined THE EXACT MASS of one kilogram for over 130 years. In 2019, scientists finally replaced this physical object with a definition based on Planck's constant. Talk about a weight being lifted off that cylinder's shoulders! Now it can retire in peace while modern physics textbooks catch up... eventually... maybe... hopefully?

Ever notice how time travel fantasies always involve family reunions or saving historical figures? Not for the true intellectuals! While normies waste time meeting their descendants (awkward), legends go straight for the good stuff—crashing Stephen Hawking's legendary time traveler party. For those who missed this brilliant bit of scientific trolling: Hawking actually threw a party for time travelers in 2009, but only announced it AFTER the party ended. If you showed up, you proved time travel works! Nobody came (allegedly), which Hawking cited as "experimental evidence" against time travel. The ultimate physicist party trick!

The moment you realize this isn't about geography at all but a classic catenary curve problem that haunts physics students everywhere! That innocent-looking cable with its 80m length, suspended between two 50m poles with a 10m sag is basically asking "how good are you at the Pythagorean theorem's evil cousin?" The true distance between poles isn't just handed to you—you've gotta earn it through calculus and tears. Nothing says "we want someone who solves problems under pressure" like disguising a differential equation as a simple distance question. Tech interviews: where your ability to calculate the horizontal distance between two poles determines if you can manage a warehouse inventory system.

When someone tells an atom to "be more positive," they're not offering self-help advice—they're triggering nuclear fission! The comic brilliantly plays on the dual meaning of "positive" in everyday language versus physics, where a positive charge happens when an atom loses electrons. Our mushroom-shaped friend in the final panel demonstrates what happens when atoms take that advice too literally—they shed their negative electrons, become unstable ions, and... BOOM! Nuclear chain reaction! The universe's most explosive interpretation of a motivational poster.

Charged particles entering magnetic fields don't just politely follow Newton's first law—they get violently yanked into circular paths thanks to the Lorentz force. The meme perfectly captures that "yes, acceleration" moment when electromagnetic forces say "straight line motion? I don't think so." The particle's velocity vector changes direction but not magnitude, creating that characteristic circular or helical path. It's basically the particle equivalent of trying to walk straight after six espressos.

Factory security guard discovers he exists in a quantum superposition. Top panel: guard walks through slits like a classical particle. Bottom panel: guard is absent but creates an interference pattern like a wave. Turns out being both a particle and a wave makes shift scheduling a nightmare. HR still expects you to be in two places at once though.