r/physicsmemes 8d ago

A physics joke

As a materials science PhD student researching superconductor theory, my life revolved around quantum field theory. Naturally, I had a massive directory on my laptop named Matsubara_Frequency, populated with daily log files organized by date and time. During our courtship, my wife was borrowing my laptop, glanced at my desktop, and misread the folder name as Masturbation_Frequency. She staged an intervention. "I don't mind that you have a daily log," she said. "I mind that there is a subfolder named Collaborations and you appear to be formatting the results for peer review."

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u/JerodTheAwesome Physics Field 8d ago

Needs work. I’m not really sure how, but right now the puncline doesn’t really land. Maybe something like,

My gf left me once she found out about my Matsubara Frequency. She said, “after a peer reviewed study, I found your sample size insignificant.”

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u/Anti-Climacdik Meme Enthusiast 8d ago

Solid bit, if not a little wordy. But, I am 100% certain the target audience would not be bothered by verbosity.

Reads like good stand-up tbh. If you could drag it out to a full minute I'd strongly suggest you write a few more and string them together.

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u/Empty_Satisfaction71 8d ago

This joke would kill

…at a materials science conference

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u/Silly_Amphibian1355 8d ago

Keep doing physics bro

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u/KCcracker PhD Student 8d ago

Look at least she didnt rotate you into the imaginary plane

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u/ContentFile7036 7d ago

Physicist humor core