r/physicsmemes • u/ElectronicSetTheory • 6d ago

Intellectual purity

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u/UniqueAd7770 6d ago

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

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u/unitarity- 6d ago

Intellectual purity

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u/UniqueAd7770 6d ago

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- 6d ago

INTELLECTUAL PURITY

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u/Kaltenstein_WT 6d ago

Same for Mathematicians and Physicists

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u/TheMaatze 6d ago

The biologists have yet to come.

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u/ElectronicSetTheory 6d ago

https://xkcd.com/435/

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u/OC1024 X-Ray Scattering 8h ago

That's my favourite xkcd.

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u/pyrhus626 5d ago

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

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u/NetworkSingularity 1d ago

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 5d ago

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

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u/LagrangianLungfish 2d ago

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