The Physics Department Hierarchy

The Physics Department Hierarchy
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The eternal physics department hierarchy in one brutal takedown! Experimental physicists build intricate contraptions to measure quantum wobbles and cosmic jiggles, while theoretical physicists scribble equations and mumble about 11-dimensional manifolds. The experimentalists are basically just high-precision engineers creating reality-checking machines for the theorists who'd otherwise float away into mathematical abstraction. It's the perfect scientific symbiosis - one group makes fancy toys, the other group makes fancy thoughts, and together they advance human knowledge while passive-aggressively competing for department funding.

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