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Spending 20 years and $10 billion to discover a particle that exists for 0.0000000000000000000001 seconds is the physics equivalent of a one-night stand. "I swear it was here! I measured it! We had a connection!" Sure, buddy. At least you got a paper out of it. That's the emotional rollercoaster of particle physics—falling in love with something that disappears faster than free food at a department meeting. But those tears of joy? Worth it. Nothing says scientific achievement like getting emotionally attached to something that exists for less time than it takes light to travel across a proton.

When conspiracy theorists claim the moon landing was staged, they forget one tiny detail - ROCKET SCIENCE IS REAL! This meme brilliantly shuts down moon landing deniers by showing the Saturn V rocket stages, which is literally how rockets work - they separate in stages to escape Earth's gravity. The sarcastic response is perfect because it uses the conspiracy theorist's own skepticism against them. Next time someone tells you NASA faked everything in a Hollywood basement, just point to the laws of physics that got us there!

The irony of calling a 200+ year old concept "Young" modulus isn't lost on materials scientists. Named after Thomas Young in 1807, this measure of stiffness has been stretching our patience longer than most lab equipment warranties. The wide-eyed cat perfectly embodies every engineering student's face when they realize they've been calculating elastic deformations using principles older than their great-great-great grandparents.

Diet culture is SHAKING right now! One gram of uranium packs a whopping 20 BILLION calories because E=mc² means mass converts to energy. That's about 10 million times your daily intake! 😱 The first reason not to eat uranium? It's radioactive and will kill you. The second reason? You'd absolutely demolish your calorie counting app. MyFitnessPal would just burst into flames. 🔥 Fun fact: The energy in uranium comes from nuclear fission, where atoms split and release energy. So technically, it's not "calories" like in food, but someone did the math converting nuclear energy to dietary calories and... yeah, that's one spicy meatball! ☢️

The dictionary rabbit hole strikes again! Just like uranium-235 splitting and triggering more fissions, one innocent word lookup spirals into a never-ending vocabulary chain reaction. Three hours later you're somehow reading about "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" when you originally just wanted to check if "affect" or "effect" was correct. The linguistic equivalent of nuclear fission, but instead of releasing energy, it's just releasing your precious time into the void! Dictionary entropy is a universal constant—it only increases, never decreases!

The comic brilliantly mashes up the biblical story of King Solomon's judgment with nuclear physics! Two women are fighting over who owns an atom (ridiculous already since atoms are everywhere). When they ask King Solomon for his wisdom, instead of offering to split the baby like in the original tale, he just... splits the atom. 💥 The mushroom cloud in the final panel is his "judgment" - if they can't decide who owns it, nobody will! Talk about atomic problem-solving! Nuclear fission: solving custody battles since 1945.