This Little Thermodynamics Exam Is Gonna Cost Us 51 Years

This meme is a brilliant fusion of gaming culture and quantum chemistry. It shows the various shapes of f-orbitals (those weird-looking electron probability distributions that haunt physical chemistry students) with the caption "Reddit, when a chemist dies." The joke references the gaming meme "Press F to pay respect" - a funeral scene from Call of Duty where players press the F key to show respect. But here, it's "Press F orbital " because, well, chemists don't deserve normal respects. We get quantum mechanical respects. Thirty years of teaching and I still can't get students to remember these orbital shapes, but somehow they never forget that stupid video game reference. If only I could harness that power for my final exam...

Most people know Schrödinger for his paradoxical cat that's simultaneously alive and dead, but this meme drops a mind-blowing truth bomb! In his 1944 book "What Is Life?", Schrödinger actually predicted that genetic information must be stored in an "aperiodic crystal" - essentially describing DNA's structure nearly a decade before Watson and Crick's famous discovery. The man wasn't just playing thought experiments with fictional felines - he was casually revolutionizing biology while everyone was distracted by his quantum mechanics work. Talk about a scientific plot twist! Next you'll tell me Einstein secretly invented TikTok dances.

The irony is delicious. On the left, Sir Isaac Newton—father of calculus, optics pioneer, and gravity's BFF—who secretly spent decades trying to turn lead into gold through alchemy. Meanwhile, the meme mockingly points at someone else as the fool. Plot twist: Newton wrote more about alchemy than physics, filling notebooks with mystical nonsense about the philosopher's stone. History's greatest scientific mind wasted years chasing magical transmutation while developing the fundamental laws of physics on the side. Next time you feel stupid for believing something ridiculous, remember that even geniuses have their blind spots—usually about the size of a periodic table.

Two scientific worldviews walk into a bar... only one remains standing! The crying flat earther desperately clings to "gravity is fake" while Einstein's General Relativity just calmly responds with "Yes." Because when you've mathematically proven that massive objects literally bend the fabric of spacetime, you don't need to scream about it. The universe does the talking for you! The ultimate scientific mic drop that's been warping minds since 1915.

Future physicists are still stuck in the same loop we've been in for decades! While we've discovered the Higgs boson, the graviton—the theoretical particle that mediates gravity—remains stubbornly elusive. So here we are in 2089, with our fancy headsets and advanced colliders, getting excited about made-up particles with ridiculous names like "gloopy-gloorb" while the graviton continues to ghost us. Meanwhile, the guy on the left is having what appears to be a religious experience over these nonsensical discoveries. Particle physics in a nutshell: spend billions on equipment, make up funny names for things, and fall asleep during the presentations about them.

The scientific method demands creativity, but not that much creativity. Every physicist explaining quantum entanglement or cryptography inevitably summons the legendary duo "Alice and Bob" - because apparently scientists collectively decided that inventing new names would break the universe. Next time you're reading a paper about quantum teleportation, take a shot every time Alice sends a qubit to Bob. Actually don't - you'd violate the laws of physics by achieving quantum intoxication faster than light can travel.