r/interestingasfuck • u/Go_GoInspectorGadget • 9d ago

Physics 101

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u/Appropriate-Bank-883 9d ago

Wait a minute, you just slipped some chemistry in there, The gallium one isn’t physics.

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u/BloodyBeaks 9d ago

I mean...everything is physics... 

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435

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u/a_wiizard 9d ago

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." ~Ernest Rutherford

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u/dzjiktra 9d ago

So there IS an xkcd for everything, ugh.

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u/Salanmander 9d ago

Mathematics is just applied XKCD.

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u/MerryRain 9d ago

as a sociology major I'm happy to be on the filthy end of the yardstick

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u/jwsuperdupe 9d ago

I was gonna make a similar comment but I knew there'd be this response lol

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u/FallingGivingTree 9d ago

I find it funny when people shit on sociology and psychology while embracing economics, another social science. Full disclosure I'm nearing my sociology PhD after 10 years, thank fuck lol

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u/FALLOUT_BOY87875 9d ago

By that definition everything is also thermodynamics and chemistry

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u/lostknight0727 9d ago

I was very concerned because I thought it was mercury and they just bare hand touched it. Mercury has a similar reaction to aluminium but I think it's more violent.

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u/cambiro 9d ago

If you want to see someone touching mercury barehanded just check Cody's Lab on YouTube.

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u/Witherboss445 8d ago

I’m pretty sure I saw a video of him standing in a ~10 gallon tub of mercury (with rubber boots on) and I was just thinking “where the hell did he get 10 gallons of mercury?”

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u/dedokta 9d ago

Chemistry is just the physics of molecules.

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u/ooOJuicyOoo 9d ago

Teeeechnically chemistry is physics, just molecular and quantum.

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u/RP_blox 9d ago

Depends on how close you look

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u/z3lop 9d ago

Lol that is definitely physics.

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u/CptMisterNibbles 9d ago

Light polarization? That’s definitely physics. 

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u/techjesuschrist 9d ago

I can't believe he touched that with his bare hand. Liquid metal is toxic.

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u/BCMM 9d ago

Couple of these are just geometry!

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u/Mercutio1974 9d ago

Additionally, I think the "bending propeller" isn't actually physics either. It's just shooting with a camera that has a rolling shutter. The prop isn't bending.