It's All Harmonic Oscillators? Always Has Been

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It's All Harmonic Oscillators? Always Has Been

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The existential crisis hits HARD! First-year physics students walk into their first "real" physics class expecting exotic particles and black holes, only to discover that the entire universe is just a collection of springs going *boing boing*! 🤣

That equation? It's the potential energy of a harmonic oscillator - basically the mathematical way of saying "everything's just wiggly jiggly springy thingies!" From quantum fields to planetary orbits, physicists model EVERYTHING as harmonic oscillators because they're mathematically tractable. The cosmic betrayal when students realize their four years of study will be dominated by this equation is simply *chef's kiss*.

Welcome to physics, kids! Where your dreams of understanding the cosmos turn into calculating how fast a mass on a spring bounces up and down... FOR ETERNITY!

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