Physics Meme Review (#1)
TLDRIn this entertaining video, the host reviews a variety of physics memes from the Grand Unified Physics Memes Facebook page and the physics meme subreddit. The video delves into the humor found in the field of physics, touching on topics like the standard model, quantum mechanics, and theoretical physics. The host shares personal anecdotes and insights, making complex concepts relatable and amusing, while also discussing the relevance and accuracy of the memes. The video is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a streaming service offering a wealth of scientific and educational content.
Takeaways
- π₯ The video is a physics meme review sponsored by CuriosityStream.
- π€£ The host plans to focus on lighter, funnier videos after completing a series on tensor calculus.
- π The host admits to being unfamiliar with social media, primarily using old school games like Runescape.
- π The video discusses various physics memes from the Grand Unified Physics Memes Facebook page and the physics meme subreddit.
- π Memes covered include topics like the annihilation operator, the standard model Lagrangian, and complex conjugates.
- π€ The host shares personal experiences with physics, such as struggling with Greek letters and the importance of the parameter 'skewness' in nuclear physics.
- π The host mentions recent developments in physics, like the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, but admits not understanding enough to discuss it in detail.
- π The video touches on advanced physics concepts like conformal field theories and quantum field theory in a curved background.
- π The host relates to memes about the challenges of understanding complex physics concepts and the humor in approximations made by physicists.
- π The video concludes with the host expressing a renewed interest in the physics meme subreddit and thanks CuriosityStream for sponsoring the video.
- π The host promotes CuriosityStream as a valuable resource for learning about science, history, and a wide range of topics with a subscription service.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is a physics meme review, where the creator goes through and comments on various physics-related memes from the Grand Unified Physics Memes Facebook page and the physics meme subreddit.
What change did the speaker want to make after finishing the tensor calc series?
-After finishing the tensor calc series, the speaker wanted to start making more light-hearted and funnier videos.
Which social media platform does the speaker mention using the most?
-The speaker mentions using old school Runescape the most, and not being very adept with other social media platforms.
What does the speaker mention about their use of Overleaf?
-The speaker mentions that they have been using Overleaf to write LaTeX, which they find very convenient.
What is the significance of the Greek letter the speaker has been using frequently?
-The Greek letter the speaker has been using frequently is an important parameter in nuclear physics called the skewness.
What experiment at Fermilab is the speaker interested in but feels they don't understand enough to discuss?
-The speaker is interested in the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab, which has a 4.2 sigma value and is said to upend known laws of physics, but they feel they don't understand it enough to discuss it in a video.
What does the speaker suggest about the approach to perturbation theory in string theory?
-The speaker humorously suggests that string theorists use perturbation theory for systems that don't even converge, and their philosophy seems to be that anything converges if you wait long enough.
What does the speaker think about the use of approximations in physics?
-The speaker believes that physicists use approximations just as much as engineers, and that their work often involves perturbation theory to findθΏδΌΌ (approximate) answers.
What mistake did the speaker make in their calculations related to generalized part-time distributions?
-The speaker accidentally evaluated the fields at the same points for different correlator functions, which led to an incorrect calculation that their advisor said meant nothing.
What is the speaker's opinion on the physics meme subreddit?
-The speaker initially thought the physics meme subreddit was mostly about engineers making approximations, but they noticed a change in the type of memes and considered giving the subreddit another chance.
What does the speaker say about the role of curiositystream in sponsoring the video?
-The speaker thanks curiositystream for sponsoring the video and provides information about the streaming service, which offers a wide range of scientific and educational content.
Outlines
π₯ Physics Meme Review Introduction
The speaker begins by acknowledging the sponsorship from CuriosityStream and transitions into discussing the format of the video, which will be a review of physics memes. They express excitement about returning to the lighter, funnier content after completing a series on tensor calculus. The speaker plans to review memes from the Grand Unified Physics Memes Facebook page and possibly the physics meme subreddit if the content becomes dry. They also share their limited social media usage, primarily sticking to old-school games like RuneScape, and their initial foray into the world of physics memes.
π€ Engaging with Complex Physics Memes
The speaker delves into the specifics of the physics memes, discussing the content and their personal reactions to them. They mention the complexity of the memes, which include advanced physics concepts like the annihilation operator, propagators, and the standard model Lagrangian. The speaker also talks about their recent use of Overleaf for writing LaTeX and the convenience it offers. They share some insights into their research, mentioning nuclear physics parameters and the challenges of writing Greek letters. Additionally, they touch upon current events in physics, such as the muon g-2 experiment and its implications for the standard model.
π Humor in Physics and Personal Experiences
The speaker continues to explore the world of physics memes, highlighting the humor found in the field. They discuss various memes that touch on different aspects of physics, such as quantum spin liquids, UV divergences, and condensed matter physics. The speaker shares personal anecdotes, including their struggles with certain mathematical calculations and the relatable nature of the memes. They also reflect on the approximations made in physics and the importance of experiencing physics beyond theoretical calculations. The speaker concludes by expressing a newfound appreciation for the physics meme subreddit and encourages viewers to share their thoughts in the comments section.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘CuriosityStream
π‘Physics Memes
π‘Tensor Calculus
π‘Social Media
π‘Grand Unified Physics Memes
π‘LaTeX
π‘Standard Model
π‘Conformal Field Theory
π‘Quantum Spin Liquid
π‘Renormalization
π‘Spherical Cow
Highlights
The video is a physics meme review sponsored by CuriosityStream.
The reviewer has a preference for lighter, funnier videos post-TensorCalc series.
The reviewer's only social media is old school Runescape.
The first meme discussed involves the annihilation operator and a dead state wave function.
The reviewer uses Overleaf for LaTeX writing, finding it convenient.
A complex conjugate Greek letter is frequently used in nuclear physics.
Newspaper articles about discoveries upending known laws of physics are mentioned.
The reviewer discusses the bulk holography and string theorists using perturbation theory.
Conformal field theories are briefly touched upon as scale-invariant theories.
The reviewer mentions the thermalization hypothesis and Einstein's field equations.
A meme about the challenges of condensed matter physics is found relatable even to those unfamiliar with the field.
The standard model and national labs like Brookhaven and Fermilab are discussed.
The reviewer disagrees with the idea of understanding physics only by experiencing it, preferring a mix of whiteboard, tablet, and paper.
The concept of self-interaction terms and Lagrangian divergence counter terms are explained.
The reviewer appreciates the humor in physics memes, especially those related to approximations and the life of a physicist.
The video ends with a thank you to CuriosityStream for sponsoring and a brief description of the service.
Transcripts
this video was sponsored by
curiositystream what's going on smart
people bringing you another app no
i wanted to say out of habit this was a
tensorcalc video but no today we're
doing a physics meme review
it's been such a long time since i've
done one of these it's been a while
since i've looked at any physics memes
to begin with
today we're going to be going through
physics memes on the grand unified
physics memes
facebook page and then if they get a
little bit dry maybe we'll move over to
the physics meme subreddit because
sometimes those aren't horrible
when i finished the tensor calc series i
wanted to start doing more
of the funnier videos the more
light-hearted videos so i thought what
should i start with
and what better to start with than the
very first physics meme review
so let's go ahead and jump right into it
so this is the grand unified physics
memes
i don't know how to use anything social
media the only social media i use
nowadays is old school runescape
when i'm buying a girlfriend for 5gp
don't tell kelly
um so i don't know if i can sort the
facebook stuff
by like most popular or whatever so i
just have it sorted from recent posts
so the first one i did see this one
already uh we have the annihilation
operator
acting on the they wave function so yeah
you're already dead
i'm gonna be skipping through the memes
that i either don't get they're either
too long
or i just didn't laugh at them because
why would i make you sit through that
so it says shut up and calculate let's
go uh okay that's a lot these ones are
so busy
jesus so we have a propagator here we
have some finding diagrams for various
interactions
a path integral what is that the
standard model lagrangian
uh okay using overleaf to write latex
overleaf i've been using that lately
actually it's really convenient i mean
people like what if you don't have
internet when do you ever don't have
internet okay
overleaf is kind of amazing using tech
maker
using tech studio that's the one i use
if if i don't have internet
uh using notepad that's weird did you
know that you can actually
there's like latex plugins you can put
into slack so if you have a workspace
with like your advisors or classmates
there's like a slack plug-in for writing
latex in that which is pretty cool
this is just going to be this is going
to be less of looking at memes and more
of just general
helpful advice apparently taking the
complex conjugate of
my god i've been using this greek letter
so much more i've never used this greek
letter more
than i have in the past like couple of
months because it's this important
parameter in nuclear physics that's
called the skewness and i
now i can actually write it it's not as
bad but it was uh
yeah there should be a montage of me
struggling and sweating trying to write
this letter over and over again
um the conjugate representation is that
just the adjoint
sus is that with that yeah
stupid um me
newspaper articles saying discovery
upends
known laws of physics fermilab with a
4.2 sigma
value on the muon g minus 2 experiment
i've been meaning to make videos on that
i just don't understand it enough to do
it and i'm also finishing up a course in
gr
i'm going to be driving home to virginia
so i don't know when i'll get around to
actually talking about that
violation of lepton flavor universality
the standard model
that's briefly bulk holography
holography
and string theorists using perturbation
theory for systems that don't even
converge when's the last
time you check to see if the
perturbative series actually converges
if it if it gets you close enough it
must have that's my philosophy
anything converges if you wait long
enough conformal field theories that's
something
that i don't really dabble in it's so
conformal field theories that are like
i guess scale invariant they're pretty
um
related to i wouldn't say related to my
research but when you discuss like form
factors of the energy momentum tensor
there are certain conformally invariant
quantities uh that end up popping up
so that is something that i should
invest some time into understanding a
little bit
the only thing is there's such a rabbit
hole because for my research i could go
down the conformal field theory rabbit
hole
the doing quantum field theory in a
curved background
rabbit hole there's so much that you
could do
i just haven't taken the time to
actually do that stat neck books using
ensembles without context without
context i can state
thermalization hypothesis uh
quick grab pathway we have a g equals
eight pi
t we have einstein's field equations
said someone just saying oh it's really
simple it's like no but this is what it
really means
einstein's field equations uh which we
just derived are motivated i guess i
should say in the most recent tensor
videos
rigi scalar reachy tensor in terms of
the
oh so it's reachy scalar in terms of the
rigid tensor rigid tensor in terms of
the riemann tensor
riemann tensor in terms of derivatives
and products of christopher symbols
christopher symbols and terms all that
stuff is so nested it's insane
it is pretty overwhelming the first time
you start going through it
uh average string theorist average
experimentalist
qft nightmares ah that's raheem that's
cool um uv divergences
yeah we can handle those we do have the
technology as long as it's
that's an end it's an infrared emergence
uh what was i doing is it tadpole
diagrams that have the ir
divergences that are difficult to get
rid of
condensed matter physicist oh great i
can't wait not to understand this meme
can't find a quantum spin liquid that's
not a real
that's a thing say something smart about
physics uh quantum spin liquid
yeah yeah that's that checks out
problem cannot be mapped into a
quadratic band theory
i need my buddy rigo here so that he can
tell me if this stuff is funny or not
vigner crystal meth it's basically a
human fermion
even nutrient i don't even understand
these and they're still kind of funny
even neutrinos have more human
interaction oh it's so it took me
six examples to learn that they're just
talking about this
uh physicist so yeah it's like a mix of
quantum physics and stat mac
actually understands neither is actually
chemistry
that's pretty funny that's a top tier
meme if someone like me who knows
nothing about condensed matter physics
i could still get a laugh out of that
excellent excellent job
standard model cavend
national lab brookhaven national lab
fermilab yeah
my advisors used to tell me that
brookhaven was the future
of uh of physics ever since it was
decided that
the new accelerator will be going there
instead of like at uh to jefferson lab
and i guess some even without that being
done they're still coming out
coming out on top you'll never
understand physics
if you sit with a bug and pen you need
to get up and start experiencing it
uh i disagree but i tend to go
from my whiteboard to my tablet and then
just back to sheets of paper because i
like to change things up
self-interaction terms lagrangian
one loop divergence counter term
lagrangian there you go two blue
divergence counter term lagrangian
uh so clearly this one isn't about
what are they called what are they even
called super renormalizable theories
i think for those so for if you don't
get the meme let's explain it because
that always makes it funnier
for the self-interaction terms these
diagrams that have loops they always
diverge
and you can isolate the divergence and
get rid of it by adding a
an additional term to the lagrangian
but that doesn't guarantee that you'll
get rid of higher order divergences but
i think in like
super renormalizable theories i think
there are like a finite number
of counter terms you can add and then it
removes all the divergences i could be
wrong though i'm not i'm not an expert
i'm not an expert on that thing i'm
supposed to be an expert on
uh what was this made by flammable maths
thank you for my little pog champ
all right i don't know how long that's
going to be i think these ones were
pretty good actually let's move over
let's give uh
the physics meme subreddit a little bit
of a shot and then we'll end things
there
so i'm there right now and i have it
sorted
by top of this month i haven't looked at
any of them that yet though
i finally saw it irl assuming a house to
be a sphere
i wonder what the context was for this
so it's either so i think i see some
solar what is that
solar system stuff maybe it's an
astronomy uh back of an envelope
calculation
solving the grandfather paradox by
killing your grandpa and still being
alive forgetting the time travel part
oh god it's here again uh corporate
needs you to find the differences
between this picture and this picture
students
they're the same picture i do think i
mean my
c's my c's look a lot better now i'm i'm
recovering this person but now they look
a bit more like this
thanks a lot gpds uh you think all the
calculations are going well
velocity equals twice the speed of light
mathematicians just multiplied by dx no
derivatives aren't fractions you can't
make such
blatant approximations physicists is cow
sphere
yes i
wonder for how much of a meme that is
i've never
seen that ever in in like a physics book
or something a suit like a spherical cow
thing i've assumed some weird stuff to
be spheres don't get me wrong but never
the actual cow
the canonical cow teacher
we happy me opening the exam paper air
resistance and friction is negligible
yeah we happy tell me the truth i'm
ready to hear it
physicists approximate just as much as
engineers i've been saying that
forever probably more i don't have a
career i don't have my own i wouldn't be
doing this phd
if i couldn't approximate every single
day anything i do
anything i look at is done in
perturbation theory
all i'm interested in is what the answer
almost is
um so we haven't so yeah i'm glad i'm
glad this is
this is coming out more especially in
the physics meme reddit where usually
i mean maybe things are changing maybe
there's a change of pace but
from my recollection it used to just be
a platform for on engineers
approximating things
oh yeah jupiter uh
what is it like it's like that meme
where uh you have the
the noob playing the video game like
your friend getting into the video game
and then the you with all of like your
max gear and stuff defending them from
arrows and stuff so that they can enjoy
the game
that's what this is that's how i would
have made the meme so you study physics
you must be really smart
uh and then and there i'm afraid the
answer is no yeah
story of my life when you start to find
a silly mistake you made in your
solution this little maneuver is gonna
cost us 51 years
i sent god
i made the stupidest mistake it may not
sound like a stupid mistake unless you
know that it's a stupid mistake
i had to calculate so i'm interested in
calculating these things called
generalized part-time distributions
which are really useful in uh nuclear
physics and
it's all quantum field theory and you
basically have these fields evaluated at
different points
i accidentally made them at the same
points these correlator functions
and went through all of the calculation
doing it wrong and i sent an email to my
advisor
i was like is this this is useless now
isn't it he's like yeah that's
that means nothing to anything so
yeah i can relate to that a little bit
i want to die i want to reach the state
of thermodynamic equilibrium
that's like those games that censor any
kind of bad word that you may throw in
there like you can't say
i don't know i'm gonna kill you or
something you'll be like i'm gonna not
alive you
yeah that's what they should start using
in like i don't know
that's good why did my mind go to club
penguin uh theater is spending all their
life
uh developing a theory experimentalist
when that theory does not agree
to hundreds of decimal places of the
experiment
hey some people's lives some people's
career is chasing that next decimal
we need them that is so funny h bar
equals one i think i might actually just
end it here
these were pretty good these were
especially on the physics meme subreddit
usually
they're not quite as good but maybe i
should start you know
uh giving them another chance i mean
that's what i started making
it started strong then they got a little
bit engineers approximate hahaha and now
it seems like they're coming back
engineer okay so they're what the next
meme was an approximation
it still is curious how there wasn't
just this steady stream of
engineering memes in the subreddit
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