2009-03-29
Original: 2009-03-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
(Single panel. Two people stand at a large chalkboard covered in dense mathematical and physics equations. A woman with red/orange hair in a green shirt reaches up and touches the board with one hand while her other hand rests on the back/shoulder of a man with brown hair and glasses in a blue shirt standing beside her.)
Chalkboard equations (partially legible):
P(a|m,n) = p(m,n|a)p(a) / ∫₀¹ p(m,n|a)p(a) da
ρ_A ≝ ∑_j ⟨j|_B (|Ψ⟩⟨Ψ|) |j⟩_B = Tr_B
⟨0|¹ (s|0) = ∑_n (ħ/...) |ω_n L ⟩ ... ⟨ω_n L|
R(ĝ) = π* (R(g)) ... s(ĝ) = Λ
F^ik F^jL gk! ... R(ĝ) = π*
Caption (below panel): Moments after free will is disproved.
Votey:
Panel 1: A man (the brown-haired man, now shown leaning/seated) speaks; offscreen the woman is implied. Speech bubble: "YOU DRAW ONE FEMALE MATHEMATICIAN, AND SHE'S GETTING FELT UP?"
Panel 2: The man, seated at a desk drawing/writing, replies. Speech bubble: "WE ALL HAVE OUR FETISHES."
Panel 3: He adds. Speech bubble: "MINE IS SEXISM."
(Single panel. Two people stand at a large chalkboard covered in dense mathematical and physics equations. A woman with red/orange hair in a green shirt reaches up and touches the board with one hand while her other hand rests on the back/shoulder of a man with brown hair and glasses in a blue shirt standing beside her.)
Chalkboard equations (partially legible):
P(a|m,n) = p(m,n|a)p(a) / ∫₀¹ p(m,n|a)p(a) da
ρ_A ≝ ∑_j ⟨j|_B (|Ψ⟩⟨Ψ|) |j⟩_B = Tr_B
⟨0|¹ (s|0) = ∑_n (ħ/...) |ω_n L ⟩ ... ⟨ω_n L|
R(ĝ) = π* (R(g)) ... s(ĝ) = Λ
F^ik F^jL gk! ... R(ĝ) = π*
Caption (below panel): Moments after free will is disproved.
Votey:
Panel 1: A man (the brown-haired man, now shown leaning/seated) speaks; offscreen the woman is implied. Speech bubble: "YOU DRAW ONE FEMALE MATHEMATICIAN, AND SHE'S GETTING FELT UP?"
Panel 2: The man, seated at a desk drawing/writing, replies. Speech bubble: "WE ALL HAVE OUR FETISHES."
Panel 3: He adds. Speech bubble: "MINE IS SEXISM."
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. Two people stand in front of a huge chalkboard densely covered with quantum-mechanics and probability equations (Bayes' theorem, density-matrix partial traces, etc.). A red-haired woman in a green shirt reaches up to touch the board while resting her other hand on the back of a brown-haired man in glasses and a blue shirt beside her, an intimate pose. The caption below reads: "Moments after free will is disproved." The joke: at the supposed instant determinism is proven, the characters are already doing exactly what physics says they must. Votey aftercomic (three small black-and-white panels): An offscreen voice protests, "You draw one female mathematician, and she's getting felt up?" A man drawing at a desk answers, "We all have our fetishes," then adds, "Mine is sexism" — the cartoonist mocking himself.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.