2010-08-29
Original: 2010-08-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man in glasses and a brown jacket gestures toward a gray-haired man in a white lab coat.
Man in brown jacket: "You just need to get the protons really close to each other! I told you that, like, thirty years ago and it's STILL not done?"
Caption (below panel): This is why experimental scientists hate theoretical scientists.
Votey:
The gray-haired man in the lab coat stands frowning in front of a whiteboard. On the whiteboard is a simple diagram: the word "CLOSE" above two plus-sign (proton) symbols drawn right next to each other, and below it the word "FAR" with two plus-sign symbols drawn far apart on either side.
A balding man in glasses and a brown jacket gestures toward a gray-haired man in a white lab coat.
Man in brown jacket: "You just need to get the protons really close to each other! I told you that, like, thirty years ago and it's STILL not done?"
Caption (below panel): This is why experimental scientists hate theoretical scientists.
Votey:
The gray-haired man in the lab coat stands frowning in front of a whiteboard. On the whiteboard is a simple diagram: the word "CLOSE" above two plus-sign (proton) symbols drawn right next to each other, and below it the word "FAR" with two plus-sign symbols drawn far apart on either side.
Alt text
A two-part SMBC comic about physics. Main panel: a balding man in glasses and a brown jacket gestures airily at a gray-haired man in a white lab coat and says, "You just need to get the protons really close to each other! I told you that, like, thirty years ago and it's STILL not done?" The caption reads: "This is why experimental scientists hate theoretical scientists" — the theorist treats the hard experimental problem of overcoming proton repulsion as if it were trivially obvious. Votey: the exasperated lab-coat scientist stands frowning before a whiteboard bearing a mock-simple diagram, the word "CLOSE" over two plus signs drawn touching, and "FAR" over two plus signs drawn far apart — the theorist's condescending "explanation" of the entire challenge.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.