I Should Open A Bakery

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I Should Open A Bakery

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The expectation vs. reality of physics is brutally accurate here! The top shows physics enthusiasts drooling over Schrödinger's cat, black holes, and pretty string theory visualizations. Meanwhile, actual physicists are drowning in complex equations, staring at grainy data plots, and muttering "we need to repeat the experiment" for the 47th time because their results look like static noise. It's the scientific equivalent of seeing a gorgeous cake on Instagram vs. the burnt mess you actually made. Physics from afar: cosmic wonder! Physics up close: debugging Python code at 2 AM while questioning your life choices.

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