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U Up?

 

Am now.

 

sorry man

 

Everything ok?

 

oh yeah  just like thinking about some wild shit i read about on reddit

 

Did you get sucked into the Downton Abbey/Harry Potter Crossover fanfic forum again?

 

nah  I’m off that    I was reading about the universe and shit

 

What about it?

 

Did you know there’s a ducking equation?

 

*ducking

 

DUCK YOU AUTOCORRECT!

 

THERES AN EQUATION.

 

Aren’t there lots of equations? A squared plus B squared equals C squared.

 

no  I mean like an equation of the universe 

 

An equation of the universe?

 

yeah man  an equation that explains everything

 

everything?

 

well almost everything. not gravity   but that shit is apparently weak anyways 

 

LOL Are you high?

 

No  but I do feel like Im trippin balls after learning about this equation  

 

hang on

 

 

 

here

A coffee mug? It looks like a prop from Good Will Hunting.

 

not the mug the equation on the mug

 

What is that equation?

 

its an equation that describes everything 

called the legranjeun or some shit 

 

Lagrangian?

 

Yes! how did you know that?

 

Wikipedia.

 

damn wiki knows all

 

It does.

 

So that equation that someone wrote in crayon on a coffee mug is the equation of the whole universe?

 

Yes

 

How is that even possible? Like what does that equation even mean?

 

You know electricity and magnetism?

 

Yeah

 

its in the equation

 

So it’s an equation for electricity and magnetism?

 

no bro its for the whole damn thing   E&M is just one part

 

E&M?

 

its the lingo man  learned it from the nerds on Reddit

 

anyways E&M is just one part that thing with the two Fs

 

What does the F stand for? Why are there two of them? And why are there little seagulls flying near each letter? And can’t we just talk about all this tomorrow?

 

I have no clue what it means 

I just read that thing with fs represents electricity and magnetism

 

Ok, but what about the other letters?

 

theres one for the weak nuclear force and one for the strong nuclear force

 

What are those?

 

dunno  

but they are apparently a big deal 

like atoms wouldnt exist without em

 

Yeah, that would seem kinda crucial, keeping atoms existing

 

yeah

 

So how does that equation describe everything? Can you use it to like predict the price of bitcoin? Because if so I got some ideas.

 

no man its not like a literal equation for everything

its more like… the DNA of the universe

like it encodes this stuff about the different forces and other fundamental particles that exist

 

huh

I told you its wild, right?

 

I mean, I guess its sorta neat.

 

NEAT?!?!?! Man THERE IS A DUCKING EQUATION FOR THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND NOBODY BOTHERED TO TELL US!!! 

 

go to school and they are like “balls roll down hills aint that fascinating?” 

 

LIKE, BITCH YOU GLOSSED OVER THE FACT THAT THERES AN EQUATION TO DESCRIBE EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER EXISTED AND IT FITS ON A DUCKING INDEX CARD. GET OUT OF HERE WITH THIS BALLS AND HILLS SHIT!!!!! 

 

like you think in biology class they are like hey, let’s spend the whole semester measuring the beaks of finches? leave kids to figure out the theory of evolution on their own damn time? hell no! they are like WELCOME TO BIOLOGY 101 YOU ARE BASICALLY A FANCY MONKEY BECAUSE OF SOMETHING CALLED EVOLUTION. WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW HUMANS BECAME FANCY MONKEYS?

 

That is literally the most words you have ever typed. Like, ever.

 

im fired up

 

I can see that. Phired up for Physics.

 

don’t do that

 

Yeah it was bad.

 

like these mfers knew there was an equation for the whole universe and hid it away 

 

On a coffee mug they sell on Etsy

 

yeah I mean they didn’t hide it   

but my physics teachers sure as shit never told me about this equation

 

Did you even take physics in high school?

 

I don’t remember but literally it should be a required lesson in every class

 

WELCOME TO HOME EC BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT BAKING PIES I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THERES AN EQUATION THAT DEFINES EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER EXISTED AND ITS SMALL ENOUGH TO SCRATCH INTO THE WALL OF THE BATHROOM STALL DURING YOUR NEXT SHIT

 

Ok, but like you read about it and you don’t really understand it. So maybe they tell people and people are like, what is this? What’s this equation got to do with my life?

 

People don’t get excited about boring things like math equations.

 

Man people join religions and things like that all the time even though they are based on these boring ass books that go on for thousands of pages about zacharias great great great grandpa zefferon who had 39 wives and lived for 800 years in the land of hezbollah

 

Which religion is that one? With Zefferon and hezbollah?

 

DOESNT MATTER! I PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE FOLLOWERS.

 

point being, no one joins a religion because because they found zefferon relatable and just had to know how the book ended…  people join because someone shows up at there door with a little brochure and it says YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY? YOU WANT TO LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE? YOU WANT TO KNOW THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE? 

 

people are like hell yes I want to live my best life!! TELL ME ALL THE SECRETS!

 

Who doesn’t want to know the secrets of life

 

exactly… now you got people so thirsty for those secrets that they will buy your boring ass 2000 page book and read it like 1000 times until they can quote shit from it  

 

shit they buy a different copy for every room in their house!  

 

or hotel

 

yeah gideon was the original hustler

 

Agreed.

 

why do people buy that book? because they think the solution to the whole mystery of life is in it

 

Ok. So physicists should be going door to door selling textbooks?

 

no  I mean, maybe   

but first day you show up in a physics class the teacher should write this equation on the board and say I know you don’t know what this means but its literally the code for the whole universe 

 

thats the end of class for today. tomorrow we will roll shit down hills and if you play your cards right ill tell you a bit more about that equation 

 

Leave them wanting more.

 

exactly

 

I mean. I guess I see your point. But also, it’s kinda simple, right?

 

?

 

I mean, I guess if you tell me you have the equation for the whole universe I’m thinking, whoah, that must be one enormous equation. Fill up pages or whatever. Definitely bigger than something that will fit on a coffee mug. This equation. It’s kinda dinky.

 

oh yeah well this is the abridged version

 

Abridged? There’s different versions? Is there like an audiobook too? Maybe read by Patrick Stewart? Cuz I’d listen to Patrick Stewart reading anything.

 

Captain Picard is such a boss

 

Yeah he is

 

theres an unabridged version

 

give me a sec…

 

….

 

….

 

sorry  had to grab my DiGiorno from the oven 

 

… 

 

still looking

 

 

k got it

you sitting down?

HOLY F.

 

Right?

 

LIKE THE MIND OF GOD.

 

I know. isnt it beautiful? 

 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN

 

LOL welcome to my world an hour ago

 

You got a link?

 

depends how little you want to sleep tonight

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-standard-model-equation

Jesse Stone

Jesse B. Stone loves science and writing. Apologies if you were looking for the "Jesse Stone" played by Tom Selleck in the CBS movies.

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