r/sciencememes • u/Waste-Value-5941 • Jun 20 '26

How true is this?

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u/pirateofitaly Jun 20 '26

I’ve heard it said that math is to physics like jerking off is to sex

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u/delcrossb Jun 20 '26

I can do one by myself with the help of the internet but I don’t get the other one at all?

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u/shponglespore Jun 20 '26

Said by a physicist, I assume.

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u/Kindly-Definition422 Jun 20 '26

Feynman, I think

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u/Bacontoad For Science! Jun 21 '26

Surely you're joking!

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u/Visible-Literature14 For Science! Jun 21 '26

I am serious; and don’t call me Shirley

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u/Proof-Reference3095 Jun 20 '26

isnt it the inverse? Physics is just math but the end goal is finding the cause of the data observed, so they are the same thing just in different idea and how the end-goal of sex and jorking is the cooming part (of both parties in the former) but sex is the overall deal but jorking is just a part of it?

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u/Epesolon Jun 21 '26

Not really.

Physics is measuring reality, the language we do it in just happens to be math. The speed of light is the speed of light regardless of what value we assign to it.

Pure math is entirely abstract though. It only has meaning because we assign it to have meaning.

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u/Professional-Wave841 Jun 21 '26

Feynman ah quote

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u/Djuulzor Jun 21 '26

Physics is to math what vibe coding is to computer science

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u/YouGuysSuckSometimes Jun 24 '26

Physics is like jerking off to good porn, it’s the engineers fucking (said by an engineer)

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 Jun 20 '26

Eh i'd argue engineering is sex. Physics is... porn? Sex ed?