When Relativity Is Easy But Kinetic Energy Breaks Your Brain

When Relativity Is Easy But Kinetic Energy Breaks Your Brain
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The first panel shows a smug stick figure confidently stating Einstein's relativity principle like it's no big deal. But then BAM! The second panel hits with the kinetic energy equation (E = ½mv²) consequences that make our poor stick figure's brain explode!

That quadratic relationship means doubling your speed requires FOUR TIMES the energy! Going from 0-10 km/h is a walk in the park, but 10-20 km/h? That's THREE TIMES harder because physics is a cruel mistress who punishes the mathematically unprepared!

It's like bragging about understanding relativity but then getting absolutely wrecked by basic Newtonian mechanics. The universe giveth conceptual understanding and then taketh away with mathematical reality!

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