2009-07-03
Original: 2009-07-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A medieval king (crown, ermine-trimmed robe, gray beard) sits beside a red-haired, red-bearded man in a vest, leaning in earnestly. The king gestures as he speaks.
King: YOU... YOU THINK WE DO THIS FOR FUN?! I'M TRYING TO COLLIDE PARTICLES FAST ENOUGH TO FIND THE HIGGS BOSON. MY GOD, MAN. WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS DO YOU THINK WE ARE?
Panel 2:
A wide medieval scene: armored knights jousting on horseback in a courtyard, charging toward each other near a lance. In a draped grandstand box above, the king and his companions watch. A fallen/charging knight is in the foreground.
King (from the grandstand): DID ANYONE SEE A BOSON?! LOOK HARD PEOPLE!
Knight (foreground): AAH!
Votey:
A rough black-and-white sketch of the king alone, looking disappointed, with a small particle/orbital diagram floating beside his head.
King: DAMN. NOTHING AGAIN.
A medieval king (crown, ermine-trimmed robe, gray beard) sits beside a red-haired, red-bearded man in a vest, leaning in earnestly. The king gestures as he speaks.
King: YOU... YOU THINK WE DO THIS FOR FUN?! I'M TRYING TO COLLIDE PARTICLES FAST ENOUGH TO FIND THE HIGGS BOSON. MY GOD, MAN. WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS DO YOU THINK WE ARE?
Panel 2:
A wide medieval scene: armored knights jousting on horseback in a courtyard, charging toward each other near a lance. In a draped grandstand box above, the king and his companions watch. A fallen/charging knight is in the foreground.
King (from the grandstand): DID ANYONE SEE A BOSON?! LOOK HARD PEOPLE!
Knight (foreground): AAH!
Votey:
A rough black-and-white sketch of the king alone, looking disappointed, with a small particle/orbital diagram floating beside his head.
King: DAMN. NOTHING AGAIN.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a medieval king in a crown and ermine robe leans toward a red-bearded man and indignantly explains, 'You... you think we do this for fun?! I'm trying to collide particles fast enough to find the Higgs boson. My God, man. What kind of idiots do you think we are?' Panel 2: the reveal — the 'particle collider' is actually a medieval jousting tournament, knights charging at each other on horseback in a courtyard while the king watches from a grandstand box and shouts, 'Did anyone see a boson?! Look hard people!' A knight cries 'Aah!' The joke: he's reframing jousting as a physics experiment to find the Higgs boson. Votey: a rough sketch of the king alone, dejected, with a tiny atom diagram beside his head, muttering 'Damn. Nothing again.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.