Physics 101: Assume A Spherical Cow

Behold! The legendary spherical cow in its natural habitat—except it's clearly not spherical. This is the infamous physics joke incarnate. Physicists love to simplify problems with "assume a spherical cow in a vacuum" when dealing with complex systems. Why calculate a cow's irregular shape when you can just pretend it's a perfect sphere? Sure, the real cow has legs, organs, and decidedly non-spherical features, but that would require actual math. This painting should hang in every physics department as a reminder that theoretical elegance and reality have a... complicated relationship. Next up in the physics art gallery: frictionless surfaces and point masses!