As someone with a degree in physics who ended up in an engineering role, I approve of this meme.
We don't judge here. :)
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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skybreaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
As an engineer, I don’t believe in any of that mind reading mumbo jumbo.
rh4c6f@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Astronomy is one of the many tools of the devil.
beneeney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fr, what can you do with a physics degree except teach people physics
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Come up with new physics to teach people?
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)
skybreaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So true, lol
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
Is the date a perfect sphere in a vacuum with no friction?
Elektrotechnik@feddit.de 11 months ago
Aww, he doesn’t understand physics and has a small dick? :(
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Engineering is just physics with real numbers.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You can have loads of imaginary numbers in EE.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Which is why I stay away from EE.
pinkyfloyd@pleroma.payfrit.com 11 months ago
@user1234 @fossilesque irl physicsatomicorange@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You start with a real number, then apply several made-up safety factors.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Her: “No I meant I’m a software engineer.”
Him: “Oh. I also hate myself and want to die.”
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Can I lick the science?”
“Nothing else has made the code work so ya might as well!”
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Ask a physician 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.
Hobo@lemmy.world 11 months 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 months ago
It’s a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is “physicien” and physician is “médecin”, very different.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 11 months ago
Who said she’s a mechanical engineer?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
She probably drives a train
SolarMech@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
IIRC they all learn some physics at engineering school. Even the software engineers.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I did chemical engineering because it only required two physics courses.
And because I like chemistry.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t physics a pretty integral part of engineering?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, integrals are mathematics
Zacryon@feddit.de 11 months 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 months ago
Specifically, structural analysts
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 11 months 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, were everyone’s backup plan when their initial goals fall through
Cowbee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Engineering is just the economical application of applied physics, without Physicists Engineers work off faulty knowledge, without Engineers nothing gets designed.
The level of understanding an Engineer needs, however, is purely within the practical and economical, while Physicists understandably have more in-depth knowledge.
Darkonion@kbin.social 11 months ago
Engineering is more like accounting, but for objects instead of money. Tables, rule books, and lobbyists.
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And writing reports, calculations and such…even manuals if there is time
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hey we understand plenty! Well the parts we have to to make the thing not go boom anyways…
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Wait, things aren’t supposed to go boom ?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I’m Torgue and I’m here to ask you one question and one question only: Explosions?
ikidd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Where’s the kaboom? There should have been an earth-shattering kaboom!
10_dollar_banana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Excellent, excellent. One thought, though. Maybe it should be boom, boom, and then kaboom. Sort of a hoo-ah grand finale!
tslnox@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I’m sure you didn’t mean it, but given the dearth of women in engineering, there’s an interpretation of this meme that’s kinda sexist.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I’m literally a woman in STEM lmao.
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Like I said, I don’t think you meant it.
Independent of who you are the meme could be read in a certain way.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That sounded darker when I misread your comment as
the death of women in engineering
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I suck at math too!
looseanus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Yikes!
… Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I’m game.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.