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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Maven@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.

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    • WbrJr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So… that’s why I never tidy up my room. I’m just too smart!

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Man, you humans are going to be really upset when you find the universal wall…

      I mean uh…

      Hey, how was the game last night amirite?

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      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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    • Hupf@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All we have to decide is what to do with the entropy that is given us.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To quote The Star Child, “What, you haven’t planned that far ahead?”

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Life is a temporary win over it, just enjoy it while you can.

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well I mean yeah. It wasn’t my first existential crisis - you get used to them eventually. Or you do what those guys did I guess.

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  • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One opening line that’s always stuck with me is:

    “The doctor said I was a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, he didn’t actually say it, but we knew he was thinking it.”

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So… is Goldstein still around or did he…?

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    • Maven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, he’s alive: His wiki page

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    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apparently still alive at 85: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodstein

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      • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s still time

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We are all gas with slightly denser particles.

    🔫

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    • hernanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We all are vast collections of harmonic oscillators.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    id want to kill myself too. just from the very little i know from computer stuff, imagine doing an entire semester

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Physics ≠ Computer Science

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      • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can’t have computer science without physics.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah yes, joke #3

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    • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for this, it was new to me

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My favorite class in grad school. I absolutely loved deriving the laws of thermodynamics from first principles based the random motion of atoms. It was beautiful.

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    • Avg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is the grad school in the room now? Do you need help?

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    • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Grad school? This is for 4y bachelor studenat

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      • Custodian1623@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bachelor student? I learned this in high school

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  • fizix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know. I like Griffith’s Quantum Mechanics which opens saying if you think you’re starting to understand this stuff, you really haven’t.

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    • normanwall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because you’re touching them with your eyes

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  • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Weed out the riff-raff who can’t hack it

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    • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Boltzmann is “riff-raff” now?!? I get what you’re going for, but c’mon.

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To quote twitch chat: “monkaS”

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  • astreus@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I dunno, I usually open a textbook by turning over the front cover 🥁

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why do we have a 🌫️ emoji instead of a cymbal? It would compliment the drum emoji so well.

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is beautiful and I must study this subject now.

    You know; so I have an excuse.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Statistical mechanics is so fucking brutal \m/

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    • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …and then we take the partial derivative of the log of this infinite series wrt molar volume to find that–

      • Why?

      Why what?

      • helplessly gestures at the whiteboard

      Oh, yeah, it’s so the math works out later! Anyway-

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      • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah lol, lots of physics and math was invented by multidisciplinary geniuses who saw equations that seemed to have no answer and said “oh yeah, this looks like a problem from biology that I’ve seen solved with this bit of fluid mechanics, and that problem can be solved with this complex trick from differential calculus. And you know, after we do that the whole system is starting to look like a circuit that uses properties from thermodynamics…”

        Then your teacher and the textbook throws it on a white board and says “some smart dude figured out this was the way to solve this problem. It looks like this and it boils down to this equation. Don’t ask questions.”

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  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s a mechanics textbook called “there once was a classical theory” and it opens with:

    There once was a classical theory Of which quantum disciples were leery. They said, “Why spend so long On a theory that’s wrong?” Well, it works for your everyday query!

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you could always just stop studying that field.

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    • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So you are just going to live forever?

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    • hglman@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course, but then the book isn’t for you.

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  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    does statistical mechanics help explain how often this gets posted here? 🙃

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  • avogadro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks Thiccle Rick

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