This Is Literally Law At This Point

The cosmic near-miss celebration is strong with this one! NASA mission control room erupting in joy because an asteroid missed Earth by a completely made-up unit of measurement ("gabogotrillion miles") is peak scientific humor. What's even better is using a Jeep Grand Cherokee as the standard unit of asteroid size—because apparently the metric system wasn't random enough. Scientists really do get excited about things not killing us all, but the absurd specificity of "9.26 gabogotrillion" takes this from standard near-miss relief to comedy gold. Next time you survive an apocalypse by an SUV-length, you too can hug your colleagues this enthusiastically!

The atomic model assassination lineup! Three physicists point their outdated models like guns at poor Schrödinger hiding in the pews. Thomson's "plum pudding" (electrons floating in positive charge) and Rutherford's nuclear model (tiny nucleus with orbiting electrons) were revolutionary until Bohr added quantum levels. But Schrödinger's wave equation changed everything - electrons exist as probability clouds rather than definite particles. It's like the other models are saying "Your cat can't be both alive AND dead, that's ridiculous!" Meanwhile, quantum mechanics is ducking for cover because it knows it's about to blow everyone's minds.

Even theoretical physics legends have their breaking points! Behind every groundbreaking black hole theory is a scientist who's stared at equations until their brain felt like it was collapsing into its own event horizon. The struggle between intellectual passion and academic survival is the true universal constant. Grant funding doesn't care about your existential crisis—those Hawking radiation calculations aren't going to derive themselves!

Hunting down Franklin in the fiery depths because he got electricity completely backwards ! The dude decided electrons flow from positive to negative (conventional current), when they actually zoom the other way. Now generations of physics students suffer through circuit diagrams with arrows pointing in the wrong direction! The ultimate scientific bamboozle that still haunts our textbooks centuries later. Imagine being so brilliant yet leaving behind an electrical legacy that makes engineers twitch uncontrollably.

The joke here is that both books look identical because Newton didn't actually contribute to magnetism theory. It's the scientific equivalent of those "spot the difference" puzzles where there is no difference. Historians of science are quietly chuckling while everyone else frantically flips pages. The real magnetism pioneers were Gilbert, Ampère, and Faraday—Newton was too busy inventing calculus and getting hit by apples to care about magnets.

Temporal shenanigans at their finest! The top panel shows "normies" using time travel for boring family reunions, while the bottom panel reveals what happens when scientific legends get their hands on a time machine—they crash each other's parties! This is basically the temporal equivalent of finding out your crush is at the same restaurant. "Oh hey, Stephen Hawking, fancy meeting you here in the space-time continuum! Love what you did with those black hole theories!" Fun physics fact: Hawking actually threw a party for time travelers in 2009 but didn't announce it until after it happened. If someone showed up, it would prove time travel exists! Spoiler alert: nobody came. Or maybe they just hated his punch.