2010-11-05
Original: 2010-11-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bespectacled man with a red bow tie (representing Schrödinger), seated across a table from another man whose back is to the viewer, gestures and speaks:
Man with bow tie: "Yes, I have a wife AND a mistress. But when I come home, before I open the door, it's uncertain whether it's one woman, the other, both, or neither will be in the room. So, most of the time, I'm only with one quantum woman."
Caption (below panel): Schrödinger failed to get that position at Princeton.
Votey:
The same bespectacled man grins, leaning back with an excited, leering expression:
Man: "Okay, ladies. You be particle, and you be wave."
A bespectacled man with a red bow tie (representing Schrödinger), seated across a table from another man whose back is to the viewer, gestures and speaks:
Man with bow tie: "Yes, I have a wife AND a mistress. But when I come home, before I open the door, it's uncertain whether it's one woman, the other, both, or neither will be in the room. So, most of the time, I'm only with one quantum woman."
Caption (below panel): Schrödinger failed to get that position at Princeton.
Votey:
The same bespectacled man grins, leaning back with an excited, leering expression:
Man: "Okay, ladies. You be particle, and you be wave."
Alt text
A man drawn to evoke physicist Erwin Schrödinger — glasses, parted hair, a red bow tie, brown jacket — sits at a table across from another man (shown from behind) and gestures as he explains: "Yes, I have a wife AND a mistress. But when I come home, before I open the door, it's uncertain whether it's one woman, the other, both, or neither will be in the room. So, most of the time, I'm only with one quantum woman." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Schrödinger failed to get that position at Princeton." The joke turns his famous superposition thought experiment into an excuse for infidelity. In the votey (bonus panel, in black-and-white), the same man grins with a leering, eager expression and says: "Okay, ladies. You be particle, and you be wave."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.