2009-08-11
Original: 2009-08-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption over a wave diagram showing a small circle/ball and an oscillating wave): ALL MATTER HAS A WAVE ASPECT
Panel 2 (caption over an equation): MATTER'S WAVELENGTH IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO MOMENTUM
Equation: lambda = h / P
Labels: lambda (wavelength); h (Planck's constant); P (momentum = mass · velocity)
Panel 3 (caption over a diffraction diagram with a wave passing through a slit and the equation d sinθ = nλ): SO EVEN LARGE MATTER CAN BE DIFFRACTED IF ITS VELOCITY IS LOW ENOUGH
Panel 4 banner: WHICH MEANS...
Scene: a woman with brown hair in a pink shirt leans over the back of a red couch, exasperated, addressing a red-haired person lying face-down on the couch.
Woman: IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS. FOR GOD'S SAKE, TAKE A SHOWER!
Person on couch (lying motionless, face down): DIFFRACTING!
Votey:
The woman, now standing and looking annoyed/over it.
Woman: AND YOU OWE ME 40 DOLLARS.
Unseen person (off-panel speech bubble): DIFFRACTING!
Panel 2 (caption over an equation): MATTER'S WAVELENGTH IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO MOMENTUM
Equation: lambda = h / P
Labels: lambda (wavelength); h (Planck's constant); P (momentum = mass · velocity)
Panel 3 (caption over a diffraction diagram with a wave passing through a slit and the equation d sinθ = nλ): SO EVEN LARGE MATTER CAN BE DIFFRACTED IF ITS VELOCITY IS LOW ENOUGH
Panel 4 banner: WHICH MEANS...
Scene: a woman with brown hair in a pink shirt leans over the back of a red couch, exasperated, addressing a red-haired person lying face-down on the couch.
Woman: IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS. FOR GOD'S SAKE, TAKE A SHOWER!
Person on couch (lying motionless, face down): DIFFRACTING!
Votey:
The woman, now standing and looking annoyed/over it.
Woman: AND YOU OWE ME 40 DOLLARS.
Unseen person (off-panel speech bubble): DIFFRACTING!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. The first three panels are physics-lecture captions over diagrams. Panel 1, over a wave-and-ball diagram: "All matter has a wave aspect." Panel 2, over the equation lambda = h/P: "Matter's wavelength is inversely proportional to momentum" (lambda = wavelength, h = Planck's constant, P = momentum = mass times velocity). Panel 3, over a diffraction diagram with the equation d sin-theta = n-lambda: "So even large matter can be diffracted if its velocity is low enough." Panel 4, banner reading "Which means...": a brown-haired woman in a pink shirt leans over a red couch, exasperated, yelling at a red-haired person lying face-down and motionless on the couch: "It's been three weeks. For God's sake, take a shower!" The lazy person, not moving at all, replies: "Diffracting!" - claiming their extreme slowness counts as physics. Votey (aftercomic, black and white): the woman stands looking fed up and says "And you owe me 40 dollars." The off-panel slacker again replies: "Diffracting!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.