Why Do Magnets Attract, Fundamentally?

Nuclear alchemy at home! This meme hilariously suggests you can transmute mercury (atomic number 80) into gold (atomic number 79) by simply removing one proton per atom with plastic tweezers. The price difference (₹30,000 vs ₹97,970 per kg) would make you rich through this "one weird trick" physicists don't want you to know about! In reality, this would require nuclear reactions, not kitchen tweezers. The joke plays on the ancient alchemists' dream of turning base metals into gold, but with modern atomic understanding twisted into absurdity. Those flying electrons would do more than "hurt you" - they'd deliver enough radiation to make your heirs very wealthy indeed!

That's Nikola Tesla casually reading a book while creating artificial lightning with his Tesla coil, like it's just another Tuesday at the office. The man was literally sitting in a room with millions of volts crackling around him thinking "hmm, yes, this chapter is getting interesting." Meanwhile, I get nervous when my phone battery hits 10%. Tesla was that perfect mix of brilliant and slightly unhinged that makes for the best scientists. He'd generate these massive electrical discharges and just vibe there, probably thinking about how Edison was a jerk while electricity danced around him. The ultimate power move in the history of scientific rivalries.

The ultimate physics dad joke in feline form! This scholarly cat just learned the hard way about gravitational potential energy. In physics, having "potential" literally means possessing stored energy due to position or state - like when you're at the top of a building about to experience an impromptu gravity experiment. The punchline works because potential energy (mgh) converts to kinetic energy during free fall. Professor Whiskers here just got a practical demonstration of E=mgh where m is mass, g is gravitational acceleration, and h is height... with a side of dark humor.

The sophisticated bear isn't depressed—he's just yearning for that sweet, sweet heat death of the universe! Thermodynamic equilibrium is basically the fancy physics way of saying "everything's the same temperature and nothing interesting can ever happen again." It's what happens when all energy is evenly distributed and entropy is maxed out. Essentially, it's the ultimate chill state where no work can be done and no processes occur. Nihilism with a physics degree, basically.

The duality of thermodynamics students is perfectly captured here! When it's just 20% of the exam? *instant narcolepsy activated* But when your AC dies during a heatwave? Suddenly you're calculating entropy changes, heat transfer coefficients, and designing better ventilation systems with the focus of a Nobel laureate. Nothing motivates understanding the laws of heat transfer like personally experiencing them in your sweltering bedroom. The universe has a twisted sense of humor—forcing you to live the subject material you're trying to study. It's like thermodynamics homework with extra suffering!

Physics students seeing this free body diagram be like: *internal screaming intensifies* 😱 This monstrosity is what happens when your physics professor has had way too much caffeine . That tiny 0.0005 N force is just there to mock your sanity while the negative gravity (-5g) is basically saying "Newton's laws? We don't know her!" 🙃 The random 107.66g force coming from nowhere is the cherry on top of this physics nightmare sundae. It's like someone took a perfectly normal mechanics problem and let a chaotic evil dungeon master redesign it!