Split Atoms, Not Hairs

The bell curve of physics knowledge is too real! The sweet spot of confidence is right in the middle with "gravity is just the curvature of spacetime" – that's the textbook answer that makes you sound smart at parties! 🎯 But then there's the beautiful extremes: On one end, the blissfully ignorant "I don't know what gravity is" folks who sleep peacefully at night. On the other end, the PhD physicists having existential breakdowns because after 70+ years of research, we've made "fuckall progress" on truly understanding gravity! This is the dirty secret of theoretical physics – the deeper you go, the more you realize nobody actually knows what's happening! String theory? Quantum fruit loops? Just fancy ways of saying "we're still guessing!" Meanwhile, the underpaid expert contemplates demonstrating gravity in the most dramatic way possible... 💀

Particle physicists when you call supersymmetry a "hypothesis" instead of a "theory" is the scientific equivalent of triggering someone's fight response. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a theoretical framework that predicts every particle has a "superpartner" with different properties. Despite decades of searching and billions spent on particle accelerators, not a single superparticle has been detected. Yet many physicists remain oddly committed to it, treating it more like established fact than untested hypothesis. The angry face in the last panel perfectly captures that moment when a physicist realizes you're questioning their beautiful mathematical construct with something as trivial as "evidence." How dare you bring the scientific method into theoretical physics!

Poor Homer is the lone "coulomb" in a bar full of "mA·h" (milliampere-hours)! It's like showing up to an electrical engineering party with the wrong unit! 🔌⚡ For the uninitiated lab rats: a coulomb measures electric charge, while milliampere-hours measure battery capacity. They're related but different - like bringing a protractor to a ruler fight! Homer's face says it all: "I've made a terrible miscalculation." The electrical engineering equivalent of wearing socks with sandals!

Taking the states of matter to a whole new level of cool! Regular liquids flow, but hyper-fluids? They flow with style . In physics, superfluids actually exist - they have zero viscosity and can do wild things like climb up walls and escape containers. Just like how "The Cooler Daniel" upgraded his look with those shades, superfluids upgraded their molecular behavior by reaching temperatures near absolute zero. They're literally and figuratively the coolest state of matter!

Engineers and tech enthusiasts everywhere are nodding in agreement! The top panel shows disgust at battery capacity measured in milliampere-hours (mAh) - which is like judging a car by how big its gas tank is. 🙄 Meanwhile, the bottom panel shows pure joy at seeing watt-hours (Wh) - the actual energy content that matters! It's like finally meeting someone who understands that what counts isn't how much coffee your mug holds, but how much caffeine is actually in it. Next time someone brags about their phone's 5000mAh battery, just ask them about the voltage and watch them malfunction. Power move.

The metronome of academic confidence swings wildly when tackling physics problems! One minute you're channeling Einstein, smugly deriving equations with godlike precision. The next, you're staring at your own work wondering if you've forgotten how to add. Physics has this magical ability to transform you from "I should probably teach this class" to "I should probably drop out" in the span of a single differential equation. The emotional rollercoaster of problem-solving isn't in any textbook, but it's definitely part of the curriculum!