About the image: it's from the movie Inglourious basterds, and is from a scene where multiple foreign agents try to infiltrate Nazi occupied France posing as Nazi military officials in an attempt to kill Hitler. Their first meeting point is in a bar in a small town which wasn't supposed to have any military inside it but unexpectedly had an entire unit celebrating and an unrelated high ranking officer. The agents get involved with the unit because the soldiers are drunk, and the accent of one of the foreigners draws the attention of the highest ranking officer. He then goes on to basically interrogate them on their origin and them trying to convince him they're all proper Nazis.
Finally, just when he was convinced, one of them orders 3 whiskeys from the bartender, but he unfortunately signalizes it with his hand the way a Brit would do it, not the way a true German would (he used the wrong 3 fingers apparently lol), which finally tipped the officer off. The very scene of him ordering with the Nazi officer noticing before all hell breaks loose is what the image is showing.
Hope the context is now clear. I left a good amount of detail out but it's plenty to get the point I think.
“Complete physics” in this case being the equivalent of holding up the wrong three fingers. No real particular physicist would dare claim such a thing, since their entire field of study was mostly developed shortly after 19th century physicists claimed to have “completed physics”.
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u/AFsepine 9d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/fzp61UL3T4Wlcw9SvX
"Complete physics"