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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 111 points 2 years ago

physics majors when they're asked to apply their knowledge (they've never been outside of the lab)

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 104 points 2 years ago

They can design the chicken coop, but only for spherical chickens in a vacuum.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago

Built from ideal materials with zero tolerance

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just like the Tesla Truck!

Though lack of both physics and engineering is on display there.

[-] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

It also fails from the arts and sociology perspectives.

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[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 84 points 2 years ago

If you ask a scientist what pi is, they will tell you it equals 3.14159. If you ask a mathematician, they will tell you pi equals the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. If you ask an engineer, they will say “about 3, but let's round it up to 5 to be safe.”

[-] oce@jlai.lu 15 points 2 years ago

I'd replace scientist to something more precise like physicist because usually people consider mathematicians as scientists even if it depends on definitions.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

usually people consider mathematicians as scientists

Yikes!

... Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I'm game.

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[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Feel free! I actually just googled it because I couldn't exactly remember it. I'd use contractions too and make it less formal sounding.

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[-] skybreaker@lemmy.world 70 points 2 years ago

As someone with a degree in physics who ended up in an engineering role, I approve of this meme.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 2 years ago

As an engineer, I don't believe in any of that mind reading mumbo jumbo.

[-] rh4c6f@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Astronomy is one of the many tools of the devil.

[-] beneeney@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Fr, what can you do with a physics degree except teach people physics

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Come up with new physics to teach people?

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that's a thing...)

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Literally everything. All science and engineering is based on physics

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[-] skybreaker@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

So true, lol

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago

Is the date a perfect sphere in a vacuum with no friction?

[-] Elektrotechnik@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Aww, he doesn't understand physics and has a small dick? :(

[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What's the first indicator a scientist tried to build their own experiment using the soldering station ?

The smell of burnt fingers.

What's the scientist waiting for sitting in front of their own experiment ?

Waiting for the infinite loop they coded to finish after they claimed they didn't need the engineer's help to write the code in their experiment.

How many scientists do you need to change a light bulb ?

Theoretically just one, but it can take several until one of them can call an engineer and admit they only know how to change light bulbs theoretically.

What does a scientist call an electrolytic capacitor ?

Acid distribution subsystem.

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ask a ~~physician~~ physicist to build a bridge, it collapse but he knows exactly how and why it collapsed.

Ask an engineer to do it, it holds but he has no idea how it's holding together.

[-] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

Wow med school has really upped their game.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
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[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

I think the word you're looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

[-] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 2 years ago

It's a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is "physicien" and physician is "médecin", very different.

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[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 38 points 2 years ago

Her: "No I meant I'm a software engineer."

Him: "Oh. I also hate myself and want to die."

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

"Can I lick the science?"

"Nothing else has made the code work so ya might as well!"

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Isn't physics a pretty integral part of engineering?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago

No, integrals are mathematics

[-] Zacryon@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

Depends on the specific engineering branch. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes nothing at all. But all engineering branches share one thing with physics: math.

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For structural analysts it's very important.

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think the joke is you don't understand enough physics to make that your gig, so you go engineering as the backup plan. Source: am IT, we're everyone's backup plan when their initial goals fall through

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 15 points 2 years ago

As a former engineering student who now works in IT.... I resent your comment.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

About to graduate in physics and I've definitely scrolled through IT job postings when anxious about not getting a PhD position

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, when IT students get those moments they look at construction ads. It's turtles all the way down.

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[-] pigup@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I have worked with guys who got physics undergrad and mech E masters. They are both awful engineers who don't really get it. I take this joke too personally because I know it's bs from experience.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 years ago

The absolute worst is when those kinds of engineers graduate but are incapable of thinking about the problems they are designing solutions for.

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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 23 points 2 years ago

Who said she's a mechanical engineer?

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

She probably drives a train

[-] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

IIRC they all learn some physics at engineering school. Even the software engineers.

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[-] Darkonion@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

Engineering is more like accounting, but for objects instead of money. Tables, rule books, and lobbyists.

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

And writing reports, calculations and such...even manuals if there is time

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Hey we understand plenty! Well the parts we have to to make the thing not go boom anyways....

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[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Don’t we all??

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