2011-04-21
Original: 2011-04-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding professor with round glasses, holding a piece of chalk, stands in front of a green chalkboard. The chalkboard shows scattered up and down arrows and a small diagram with an arrow.
Professor: "So, you see, something can exist not just as truth or falsehood, but also as a superposition. A third option: true-false."
Panel 2:
A gray-haired man in a dark blue suit with a red tie (a student/audience member) looks unimpressed.
Man in suit: "Well yeah."
Man in suit: "I'm sorry... why does anyone find this concept difficult?"
Caption below the comic:
Oddly enough, politicians excel at quantum mechanics.
Votey:
A hand-drawn breaking-news style banner reads:
"BREAKING: CONGRESS CREATES TRUTH-LIE HYBRID"
A balding professor with round glasses, holding a piece of chalk, stands in front of a green chalkboard. The chalkboard shows scattered up and down arrows and a small diagram with an arrow.
Professor: "So, you see, something can exist not just as truth or falsehood, but also as a superposition. A third option: true-false."
Panel 2:
A gray-haired man in a dark blue suit with a red tie (a student/audience member) looks unimpressed.
Man in suit: "Well yeah."
Man in suit: "I'm sorry... why does anyone find this concept difficult?"
Caption below the comic:
Oddly enough, politicians excel at quantum mechanics.
Votey:
A hand-drawn breaking-news style banner reads:
"BREAKING: CONGRESS CREATES TRUTH-LIE HYBRID"
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: a balding professor with round glasses holds chalk in front of a green chalkboard covered in scattered up/down arrows and a small diagram. He says, "So, you see, something can exist not just as truth or falsehood, but also as a superposition. A third option: true-false." Panel 2: a gray-haired man in a dark suit and red tie looks unimpressed and replies, "Well yeah. I'm sorry... why does anyone find this concept difficult?" Caption: "Oddly enough, politicians excel at quantum mechanics." The joke is that the man, a politician, finds quantum superposition obvious because politicians routinely treat statements as simultaneously true and false. Votey: a hand-drawn breaking-news banner reading "BREAKING: CONGRESS CREATES TRUTH-LIE HYBRID."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.