Relatively Unreal: The Theoretical Existence Of Einstein

The pandemic really humbled the physics community! While biologists and chemists were front and center battling COVID-19, developing vaccines and treatments, physicists were suddenly... not the heroes of the scientific narrative. For decades, physicists dominated scientific discourse with their grand unified theories and particle accelerators, often looking down on "softer" sciences. Then COVID hit, and suddenly those biochemistry classes everyone skipped became pretty darn important. Nothing like a global pandemic to make you realize that understanding proteins might be slightly more urgent than string theory. The physicists' collective "perhaps I treated you too harshly" is basically science's version of "sorry I was a jerk in high school, you're actually cool now."

Quantum mechanics in a nutshell. Electrons exist in a probability cloud where they're simultaneously everywhere and nowhere until observed. Try pinpointing an electron and it's like playing hide-and-seek with a toddler who keeps changing hiding spots. Heisenberg would appreciate this tape's commitment to position uncertainty. At least the tape is honest about its existential crisis.

The meme plays on Newton's famous prism experiment where he split white light into a rainbow spectrum! Instead of just explaining optics, the joke suggests Newton "proved" going outside is gay because rainbows (often associated with LGBTQ+ pride) come from sunlight. It's a hilarious anachronistic mashup of 17th century science and modern slang. Newton would be so confused if he knew his groundbreaking work on light refraction was being used this way centuries later! 🌈

When your spouse wants intimacy but your brain is stuck on the derivative definition of calculus... Feynman's marriage didn't survive his relationship with mathematics! The man literally couldn't turn off his brain long enough to focus on his wife's needs. That formula isn't just defining the rate of change—it's defining the rate at which his marriage was deteriorating. The ultimate "sorry babe, thinking about other functions." Relationships require attention, but apparently calculus requires more!

Physics students know the golden rule: c is the speed of light and it's CONSTANT. It's the ultimate cosmic speed limit! But this meme shows Einstein's reaction when someone dares to treat it as a variable. First he's concerned, then he's like "ACTUALLY, that's brilliant!" In E=mc², changing c to 2c would quadruple your energy (since it's squared). Einstein's having that eureka moment - "Wait, if we could somehow double the speed of light, we'd get FOUR TIMES the energy!" Too bad it breaks his own theory of relativity. That's the ultimate physics prank - messing with constants that shouldn't be messed with!

Stellar physics humor at its darkest. If a black hole had the same mass as our sun (a solar mass black hole), its event horizon would be about 6 km across—roughly the size of a small city. But if it had the same diameter as the sun? The density would be catastrophic, and we'd all be spaghettified before we could finish calculating the gravitational forces. The facial expressions perfectly capture the existential terror of realizing that astrophysics problems aren't just theoretical anymore.