The Feynman Difficulty Gradient

From "apple, banana, airplane" to setting fundamental constants equal to 1? That escalated quickly! The bottom equation shows physicists' favorite trick: setting Planck's constant (ℏ), speed of light (c), and gravitational constant (G) to 1 to simplify equations. It's like saying "these numbers are too annoying to keep writing, so they're all 1 now, deal with it." This is how theoretical physicists cheat on their math homework. The real flex isn't solving equations—it's making them disappear entirely. And yes, this is exactly how Han Solo made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs—by conveniently redefining his units of measurement!

The perfect illustration of why physicists and mathematicians can't sit at the same lunch table. Physicists just wave their hands and say "it's that integral thingy" while mathematicians are performing Olympic-level mental gymnastics with L² spaces and distribution theory. Next time a physicist smugly tells you they "understand" Fourier transformations, show them this and watch their confidence dissolve faster than their approximations. Pure mathematicians don't just want the answer—they want to torture themselves with rigor first.

The r/AskPhysics subreddit moderators work faster than the speed of light when it comes to deleting questionable posts. You think you've found the unified theory of everything at 3 AM? Posted a rambling manifesto about how Einstein was wrong? Congratulations, you've created Schrödinger's post - simultaneously existing and not existing within a 12-minute window. The moderation team has the deletion reflex of a nervous system that evolved specifically to protect physics from "revolutionary" bathroom thoughts. Pro tip: If you want your post to survive, try including actual physics and fewer ALL CAPS declarations of genius.

This tiny chihuahua is literally demonstrating how science works! Physics sits on top (wearing a fancy hat because it's the show-off of sciences), while it's all balanced on multiple cans of Math. And notice that tiny "Empirical Evidence" label? That's the secret sauce holding everything together! Without actual evidence, the whole scientific framework would collapse faster than my motivation during finals week. It's basically the perfect visualization of how theoretical physics needs both mathematical foundations and real-world evidence to stand up!

Content Physics Physics if Newton slept under a coconut tree. Are we a joke to you?

Ever notice how physics is just a dog balancing on cans of math? That's higher education in a nutshell. You spend years learning calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra just to understand why a ball falls down. Then some professor casually mentions "string theory" and suddenly you're a dog wearing a tin foil hat, standing on wobbly cans of increasingly complex mathematics that nobody at the party actually understands. But we all nod thoughtfully anyway because questioning it might reveal we're intellectual frauds. The greatest physics discoveries always start with "I have no idea what's happening, but it seems important!"