Spicy Metal: The Glowing Review

When CAPTCHA asks you to "select all squares with electrons," it's basically asking you to click on EVERY SINGLE SQUARE. That molecule is showing electron orbitals, but electrons aren't in fixed locations—they exist in probability clouds thanks to quantum mechanics. They could be anywhere in those orbitals! It's like asking someone to point to exactly where a teenager will be in a mall. Good luck with that, CAPTCHA. You've created an unsolvable puzzle that would make Heisenberg himself throw his computer out the window.

Newton's second law: F = ma. But in this case, "F" is labeled "Fysics" (the budget spelling of Physics), "m" is labeled "math," and "a" is labeled "a whole lot of tears." The perfect equation for every physics student's experience. The force required to pass physics equals your mathematical ability multiplied by an excessive amount of suffering. Whoever made this clearly spent as much effort on spelling "physics" as most students do on their homework the night before it's due.

Physics students see the world through equations, but show them a bird and suddenly they're lost in a sea of... bird . This diagram perfectly captures the disciplinary divide where biologists meticulously label every feather, while physicists just see an aerodynamic projectile with mass m! The beautiful complexity of taxonomy reduced to "bird" labels everywhere is practically the scientific equivalent of pointing at food and saying "food." Next time your physicist friend tries to simplify quantum mechanics, hand them this bird diagram and watch their brain short-circuit!

Looking at an empty box next to a mirror and calling it "Schrödinger's cat" is peak physics humor. The cat exists in a superposition of states—simultaneously inside the box and not inside the box until you observe it. Of course, the actual thought experiment involved radioactive decay potentially killing the cat, not some quantum feline playing hide-and-seek with reality. Thirty years teaching quantum mechanics and students still think this is the height of cleverness. I suppose it's better than another entropy joke that's falling apart.

Engineering students roasting each other only to discover they're all equally traumatized by statics problems! The meme brilliantly captures that moment when you realize stress and strain calculations have broken everyone's spirit. That final panel with the void-faced "no" is basically every engineering student at 3AM before the mechanics exam. The monkey's comeback is pure gold—turns out nobody can solve these problems without having an existential crisis first.

That moment when a student accidentally asks a question that would require explaining general relativity, spacetime curvature, and the dual wave-particle nature of light all in one go. The teacher's face says it all—pure existential panic. The truth is, light doesn't have rest mass but it DOES have energy, and according to Einstein's famous E=mc², energy and mass are equivalent. Black holes don't technically "attract" light—they warp spacetime so severely that light's path bends toward them. But try explaining that to 16-year-olds who still think the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell is the pinnacle of scientific knowledge. No wonder the teacher looks like they're contemplating a career change to literally anything else.