Even His Marriage Was Relative

When mathematicians see someone write "e = 8" on an MIT entrance exam from 1869, they collectively lose their minds! The meme shows historical figures (including what appears to be Euler himself) trying to restrain someone who's witnessing this mathematical blasphemy. It's like catching someone claiming the Earth is flat at a NASA conference! The joke references how mathematicians get irrationally upset (pun intended) about approximations. While engineers might round π to 3 for practical calculations, seeing the mathematical constant e (approximately 2.71828) defined as 8 would make any mathematician need therapy. The title "π=3 Is So 21st Century" suggests we've moved beyond that old mathematical sin to commit even more outrageous ones!

The meme brilliantly contrasts how different generations would use time machines. Young guys just want to meet their descendants (boring!), while true intellectuals would go straight to Benjamin Franklin to drop some electrical knowledge bombs. Imagine Franklin's face when you tell him "Electron flow is from the anode to the cathode" and he's just like "Cool." Meanwhile, he's probably thinking "What in tarnation is an electron? I'm still flying kites in thunderstorms over here!" The ultimate scientific flex would be explaining modern electrical theory to the guy who didn't even know what he was discovering. History's greatest "well, actually" moment.

Fancy Pooh has spoken! Why call it "Rutherford scattering experiments" when we could just say what it really is - "smash or pass" at the atomic level? Ernest Rutherford literally fired alpha particles at gold foil to see which ones smashed into something and which ones passed through. Turns out atoms are mostly empty space with a tiny nucleus playing hard to get. Physics was just Tinder for particles before Tinder existed.

That moment when you realize some mathematician in 1876 was sitting there with quill and parchment calculating a 39-digit prime number while you struggle to split the dinner bill without an app. The absolute madman was Édouard Lucas, who discovered the Mersenne prime 2 127 -1 (a 39-digit behemoth) using nothing but his brain, paper, and probably an unhealthy obsession with numbers. Meanwhile, I need a calculator to figure out if I can afford guacamole with my burrito. Evolution clearly peaked in the 19th century.

The scientific method isn't just a cycle—it's an eternal spiral between "FIND OUT" and "F*CK AROUND." Every groundbreaking discovery starts with someone thinking "I wonder what happens if..." followed by either brilliant insight or spectacular failure. Notice how "Test with experiment" sits perfectly between these two realms? That's because laboratory work exists in that magical quantum superposition where you're simultaneously discovering profound truths and setting your eyebrows on fire. The best scientists know that methodical research and chaotic exploration are two sides of the same coin—you can't have one without the other!

The ultimate scientific pun collision! This meme plays on the homophone between "Nobel" (the prestigious prize) and "no bull" (absence of bovine creatures). Our oblivious researcher is so absorbed in his reading that he completely misses the elephant-sized threat behind him. Meanwhile, the elephant's warning about receiving "the Nobel" is actually a life-saving heads-up about there being "no bull" in the vicinity. Scientific accomplishment and mortal danger have never been so hilariously confused! Just another day in field research where misinterpreting communication might be your last experiment.