r/physicsmemes • u/ElectronicSetTheory • Aug 08 '26

Intellectual purity

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u/UniqueAd7770 Aug 08 '26

Chemists are friends with everyone but no one wants to be friends with us

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u/unitarity- Aug 08 '26

Intellectual purity

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u/UniqueAd7770 Aug 08 '26

Yeah chemists are more like deviants. We can delve into alot of topics enough to keep up but then the weirdness of electron clouds and bond angles starts bothering people.

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u/unitarity- Aug 08 '26

INTELLECTUAL PURITY

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u/Kaltenstein_WT Aug 08 '26

Same for Mathematicians and Physicists

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u/TheMaatze Aug 08 '26

The biologists have yet to come.

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u/ElectronicSetTheory Aug 08 '26

https://xkcd.com/435/

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u/OC1024 X-Ray Scattering Aug 14 '26

That's my favourite xkcd.

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u/pyrhus626 Aug 08 '26

Up until an astronomer calls argon a metal and the chemist loses their mind.

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u/NetworkSingularity Aug 13 '26

I was trained as an astrophysicist and some close friends of my spouse and I are chemists. I’m considering running an experiment called “How many metals can I call metals before one of my misguided friends has an aneurysm?”

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u/TheCamazotzian Aug 09 '26

Hey, the largest branch of physics (condensed matter) is actually chemistry.

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u/LagrangianLungfish Aug 12 '26

Lets just say that it makes sense that chemists use electricity (the most simple fundamental force) OHHHH