2012-06-29
Original: 2012-06-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Woman with glasses (presenting, holding a remote/clicker): "I had two men sexually interested in me, but couldn't decide. So I fired a photon through a plate that randomly reflects or transmits light. If it reflected, the machine summoned the first man. If it transmitted, the second man was summoned. With the lights out, I had sex with the man who showed up, and did not observe which man it was."
(A diagram on the wall beside her shows a photon path: a wavy line splitting at a beam-splitter plate, branching to two arrows labeled "1" and "2".)
Caption (below panel): The scientific community has not welcomed my "quantum threesome" concept.
Votey:
Header label: EARLIER...
A speech bubble (off-panel speaker): "Oh baby. Let's do it in a superposition!"
Woman with glasses (presenting, holding a remote/clicker): "I had two men sexually interested in me, but couldn't decide. So I fired a photon through a plate that randomly reflects or transmits light. If it reflected, the machine summoned the first man. If it transmitted, the second man was summoned. With the lights out, I had sex with the man who showed up, and did not observe which man it was."
(A diagram on the wall beside her shows a photon path: a wavy line splitting at a beam-splitter plate, branching to two arrows labeled "1" and "2".)
Caption (below panel): The scientific community has not welcomed my "quantum threesome" concept.
Votey:
Header label: EARLIER...
A speech bubble (off-panel speaker): "Oh baby. Let's do it in a superposition!"
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A woman with glasses stands beside a whiteboard holding a remote clicker, presenting. Behind her is a diagram of a photon's wavy path hitting a beam-splitter plate and branching into two arrows labeled 1 and 2. Her speech: "I had two men sexually interested in me, but couldn't decide. So I fired a photon through a plate that randomly reflects or transmits light. If it reflected, the machine summoned the first man. If it transmitted, the second man was summoned. With the lights out, I had sex with the man who showed up, and did not observe which man it was." The caption below reads: The scientific community has not welcomed my "quantum threesome" concept. Votey (aftercomic): A black panel labeled "EARLIER..." with a speech bubble reading: "Oh baby. Let's do it in a superposition!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.