Random Memes

This meme brilliantly captures the spectrum of gravitational understanding! At the center, we have the average person with the perfectly reasonable "gravity pulls us down" perspective. On the far left, Flat Earthers somehow reached the same conclusion as relativistic physicists on the right—but through spectacularly wrong reasoning. What makes this hilarious is how it uses the bell curve of intelligence meme format to show that both the extremely uninformed and the extremely educated arrive at "the ground is accelerating up" conclusion—but for wildly different reasons! In relativity, reference frames matter, and technically the ground could be considered as accelerating toward us rather than us falling toward it. Meanwhile, Flat Earthers just... well, they're doing their own thing with reality. The "fixed for accuracy" part is the cherry on top—changing "gravity pulls us down" to "gravity pulls us into heavy objects," which is actually a much better description of how gravity works. Newton would be proud... or at least less disappointed in us.

Why commit a crime when you can just reframe it as a physics demonstration? Pushing someone off a roof? Barbaric. Providing them with a firsthand experience of non-inertial reference frames, gravity, and free fall acceleration at 9.8 m/s²? That's just being an enthusiastic educator! Next time you're in court: "Your Honor, I wasn't committing assault—I was conducting a peer-reviewed experiment on the conservation of momentum."

The perfect physics pun doesn't exi— Oh wait, it does! This meme brilliantly plays on the dual meaning of "matter." While wealthy people claim money doesn't matter (despite literally sitting with piles of cash), physicists take it to the next level by declaring that friction, air resistance, shape, and mass—fundamental properties of matter itself—don't matter either. It's the ultimate physicist move to ignore real-world complications when solving problems. "Assume a frictionless surface" is basically the "let them eat cake" of physics.