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When your colleague's "Little Bang theory" is just not getting the traction of the Big Bang! Poor Williams is desperately trying to convince his peers that his alternative cosmological model deserves attention. Meanwhile, his colleagues are rolling their eyes because they've heard this pitch 42 times already. The whiteboard equations? Pure cosmic gibberish with just enough mathematical symbols to look legit from a distance. Scientists can be ruthlessly competitive—if your theory doesn't explain the universe AND make coffee, don't even bother presenting it!

The joke is that there's literally no difference between the two books. Leonhard Euler, the mathematical equivalent of that overachiever who ruins the grading curve for everyone, somehow managed to stick his fingers into virtually every scientific pie except chemistry. The man invented so many formulas and constants that mathematicians ran out of letters and started using weird symbols. Physics? Conquered. Astronomy? Dominated. But apparently chemistry was safe from his intellectual rampage. Just imagine being so prolific that people make memes about the one field you didn't revolutionize. Meanwhile, most of us struggle to remember where we put our coffee.

Darwin's just escorting Lamarck home after he suggested giraffes evolved long necks by stretching to reach tall trees. The comic perfectly illustrates Lamarckian inheritance—the debunked theory that acquired traits pass to offspring. Meanwhile, Darwin's sitting there with natural selection like, "That's cute, but no." The comic's conclusion that giraffes are just stubborn horses is exactly the kind of nonsense that would make Lamarck nod enthusiastically while Darwin reaches for the aspirin. Evolution doesn't work by trying really hard, no matter how much undergrads wish it did during finals week.

Ever notice how we celebrate Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, but completely forget about Michael Collins? The poor guy was orbiting the Moon alone while his buddies were making history and collecting Moon rocks. Talk about the ultimate third wheel! He literally flew 238,900 miles from Earth just to stay in the car. Next time you feel left out at a party, remember Collins - the astronaut who traveled farther than almost any human in history only to get cropped out of humanity's greatest photo op.

Before and after quantum physics is basically the scientific equivalent of "meth: not even once." Poor Max Planck went from dapper gentleman to wild-eyed mad scientist in just 23 years! Turns out trying to understand why hot things glow and accidentally discovering that energy comes in discrete packets can really mess with your hair (and sanity). The quantum world broke his classical brain! Next time someone asks you to explain wave-particle duality, just show them this transformation and whisper "this could be you."

Niels Bohr, father of atomic structure theory, shown hitting the emergency meeting button like he's playing Among Us. The audacity of suggesting atoms might have multiple electrons must have triggered his scientific fight-or-flight response. Meanwhile, the entire periodic table sits there awkwardly, already containing elements with dozens of electrons. Pretty sure Bohr's model literally accounts for multiple electron shells. Next groundbreaking question: "What if water is actually wet?"