2009-05-18
Original: 2009-05-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: SCIENCE QUIZ!
MATCH THE VIEWPOINT TO THE LIFESTYLE:
Left column (viewpoints):
1) ISAAC NEWTON
Newton (speech bubble): "Light consists of individual particles at particular locations."
2) ERWIN SCHRODINGER
Schrodinger (speech bubble): "Light and its position cannot be described simply. In fact, light can have several locations at once."
Right column (lifestyles):
A) LIFELONG BACHELOR
B) LIVED WITH TWO WOMEN
(The joke: the quiz invites you to match the physicist's view of light to his romantic lifestyle. Newton, who believed light is a particle in a single particular location, was a lifelong bachelor; Schrodinger, who believed light could be in several locations at once, lived with two women.)
Votey:
Header: EINSTEIN
A caricature of Albert Einstein with wild hair.
Off-panel question (speech bubble): "Were you faithful to your wife?"
Einstein (speech bubble): "Relatively."
MATCH THE VIEWPOINT TO THE LIFESTYLE:
Left column (viewpoints):
1) ISAAC NEWTON
Newton (speech bubble): "Light consists of individual particles at particular locations."
2) ERWIN SCHRODINGER
Schrodinger (speech bubble): "Light and its position cannot be described simply. In fact, light can have several locations at once."
Right column (lifestyles):
A) LIFELONG BACHELOR
B) LIVED WITH TWO WOMEN
(The joke: the quiz invites you to match the physicist's view of light to his romantic lifestyle. Newton, who believed light is a particle in a single particular location, was a lifelong bachelor; Schrodinger, who believed light could be in several locations at once, lived with two women.)
Votey:
Header: EINSTEIN
A caricature of Albert Einstein with wild hair.
Off-panel question (speech bubble): "Were you faithful to your wife?"
Einstein (speech bubble): "Relatively."
Alt text
A comic styled as a "SCIENCE QUIZ!" titled "Match the viewpoint to the lifestyle." The left column shows two physicists giving statements about light. Panel 1, Isaac Newton (drawn with long curly hair): "Light consists of individual particles at particular locations." Panel 2, Erwin Schrodinger (a balding man with round glasses): "Light and its position cannot be described simply. In fact, light can have several locations at once." The right yellow column lists two lifestyles to match: A) Lifelong bachelor, and B) Lived with two women. The joke maps each physicist's view of light onto his love life: Newton (light in one fixed location) was a lifelong bachelor, while Schrodinger (light in several locations at once) lived with two women. Votey: A header reads "EINSTEIN" above a caricature of Albert Einstein with wild hair. An off-panel voice asks, "Were you faithful to your wife?" Einstein replies, "Relatively."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.