The Physicist's Comedy Arsenal

The Physicist's Comedy Arsenal
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The greatest inside joke in physics is that we really do only have these five jokes. I've been teaching for 30 years and still trot out the spherical cow when solving impossible problems. "Assume the cow is a perfect sphere in a vacuum..." It's practically a rite of passage.

What's truly hilarious is watching new physics students discover these classics and thinking they're being original. Sorry kid, your Schrödinger's cat punchline was already old when Feynman was doodling in notebooks.

The real sixth joke? The starting salary for physics graduates.

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