The Velocity Notation Nightmare

The internal screaming is practically audible! Physics majors everywhere are clutching their calculators in pain because a light-year is distance , not time. It's like saying "I'll be there in 3 kilometers" or measuring your weight in decibels. A light-year is specifically the distance light travels in one year (about 9.46 trillion kilometers). Next time you want to see a physics student's soul leave their body, just casually mention how many light-years until your birthday.

So this is what happens when you give an engineer a lemon, a potato, and a clock. Apparently time travel requires fewer components than my microwave. The schematics look suspiciously like someone just taped produce to a Timex and called it revolutionary physics. Still waiting for my DeLorean powered by fruit salad.

Ever seen a glass lamp post turn into a death ray? That's exactly what's happening here! The spherical glass lamp is acting like a converging lens, focusing sunlight into an intense beam that's literally scorching a line across the grass. It's the same principle behind why you shouldn't leave glass bottles in forests - except this one can't be moved and is committing lawn murder daily. Mother Nature getting a physics lesson she never asked for!

The duality of physicists! Dismisses astrology as "made up nonsense" but gets absolutely giddy about theoretical spacetime tunnels that might not even exist. Sure, wormholes are mathematically consistent with general relativity, but so is my theory that grading papers causes temporal distortion. The irony of rejecting star signs while worshipping equations that describe cosmic shortcuts nobody's ever seen is just *chef's kiss*. Next time someone scoffs at your horoscope, ask them about their feelings on string theory.

The struggle is real for those poor X-rays! Lead is basically the ultimate bouncer at the radiation club, with an atomic number of 82 and electron-dense structure that makes it practically impenetrable. That's why radiologists and nuclear workers hide behind lead shields—these photons slam into lead's electrons and get completely shut down. The meme perfectly captures the physics of radiation attenuation with some Syndrome-level intensity. Fun fact: just 1/4 inch of lead can block over 95% of medical X-rays. Talk about hitting a brick wall!

This flowchart is what happens when career counselors have a mental breakdown. Engineering? Only if you're "good with things." Chemistry? Congratulations on your future as a "fussy pedant." And let's not forget Computer Science, perfect for those who prefer "slow, indirect evil" over the more efficient varieties. The beautiful part is how it nails the existential crisis of every STEM student. "Why do you want to major in a STEM field?" Options include "curiosity" (adorable), "to save the planet" (delusional), or my personal favorite, the dawning realization that STEM was supposed to involve actual plants for Biology majors. After 30 years of teaching, I can confirm this is approximately 87% accurate. The missing 13% is the path where you choose your major based on which department has the least uncomfortable chairs in the lecture hall.