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[–] silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If I ever get a tattoo it needs to be physics or math related but I have no clue how it's possible to not be terribly cringe. Maybe a clever geometric argument/proof of something important in physics/math.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah the cringe factor on that one is pretty high unless you come up with something unique.

The Maxwell field equations stand on their own in their beauty I think, but you kind of have to have some tangential relation for it not to just be ugh.

Or maybe nah that is cringe.

A good anti cringe factor is humor. If you can find something that's both meaningful and funny then that always works.

[–] highrfrequenc@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

58008 And you tell people they can turn you upside down

Joke aside, I knew a guy who had some version of Binet formula tattooed on his shoulder. I thought it was clever and has an interesting history, and if people ask you can talk about Fibonacci and golden mean and art and the renaissance period and etc