#1851: Magnetohydrodynamics

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Ponytail holding her hands up is facing Cueball and Megan .]

Ponytail: The Sun's atmosphere is a superhot plasma governed by magnetohydrodynamic forces...

Cueball: Ah, yes, of course.

[Caption below the panel:]

Whenever I hear the word "magnetohydrodynamic" my brain just replaces it with "magic."

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Magnetohydrodynamics combines the intuitive nature of Maxwell's equations with the easy solvability of the Navier-Stokes equations. It's so straightforward physicists add "relativistic" or "quantum" just to keep it from getting boring.


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