2009-02-13
Original: 2009-02-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Two men stand in a cluttered, old-fashioned laboratory full of glassware, bottles, and instruments. On the left is an older man in a top hat, glasses, and long coat, pointing a finger. On the right is a younger man with reddish hair and a beard, wearing a brown coat and holding up a tennis-racket-like net.
Man in top hat: "I asked you for protons, not excuses!"
Man with the net: "I'm telling you, we need smaller nets!"
Caption (below panel): Particle physics has come a long way since the 1700s.
Votey:
The two men again, drawn loosely in black and white. The bearded man on the right cradles a round object marked with a plus sign (a proton) in his hands.
Bearded man: "Careful. That electron could be anywhere."
Two men stand in a cluttered, old-fashioned laboratory full of glassware, bottles, and instruments. On the left is an older man in a top hat, glasses, and long coat, pointing a finger. On the right is a younger man with reddish hair and a beard, wearing a brown coat and holding up a tennis-racket-like net.
Man in top hat: "I asked you for protons, not excuses!"
Man with the net: "I'm telling you, we need smaller nets!"
Caption (below panel): Particle physics has come a long way since the 1700s.
Votey:
The two men again, drawn loosely in black and white. The bearded man on the right cradles a round object marked with a plus sign (a proton) in his hands.
Bearded man: "Careful. That electron could be anywhere."
Alt text
A color comic set in a cluttered 1700s-style laboratory full of glassware and bottles. An older man in a top hat and glasses points his finger and snaps, "I asked you for protons, not excuses!" A younger red-haired, bearded man in a brown coat holds up a tennis-racket-like net and replies, "I'm telling you, we need smaller nets!" A caption below reads: "Particle physics has come a long way since the 1700s." The joke imagines early scientists trying to physically catch subatomic particles with nets. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): the bearded man now cradles a round object marked with a plus sign and warns the top-hatted man, "Careful. That electron could be anywhere."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.