2012-07-17
Original: 2012-07-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Man (older, bald with glasses): I'm about to subtract from, my dear.
Panel 2
Man: Oh, I'll say it's a sensible way to interpret quantum electrodynamics. I'll say it's the best way to match mathematician theorems to empirical phenomenon.
Panel 3
Man: But that's not what I do it!
Panel 4
Man: No. I do it to wave mathematicians cry.
Panel 5
Man (leaning in, grimacing): MFF! MFFTY MMFFF!
Panel 6
Man: Who's top of the intellectual food chain now?!
Woman (red hair): Hey... watch this.
Panel 7
Woman (grinning wide): I'm going to use these as if they're separate variables! Ha ha ha ha ha! MFFF!
Panel 8
Man: Good. Good. I think you've had enough for today.
Woman: I'll just head back to the physics department where... AAH!
Panel 9
Woman: How'd you get loose?
Man: Knot theory!
Panel 10
Woman: What are you going to do to me?
Panel 11
Man (looming): Give you the general case of a mathematical technique which you only applied for a specific usage.
Panel 12
Woman: No! NOOOO! NOOOO!
Man: HAHAHAHA! HAHAHA!
Panel 13
Child: Whatcha think mommy and daddy are doing about?
Other child: Theorems, no doubt. Beautiful... beautiful theorems.
Votey:
A hand-lettered sign reads: "To everyone from SDCC! See you all next year!" with a small heart.
Man (older, bald with glasses): I'm about to subtract from, my dear.
Panel 2
Man: Oh, I'll say it's a sensible way to interpret quantum electrodynamics. I'll say it's the best way to match mathematician theorems to empirical phenomenon.
Panel 3
Man: But that's not what I do it!
Panel 4
Man: No. I do it to wave mathematicians cry.
Panel 5
Man (leaning in, grimacing): MFF! MFFTY MMFFF!
Panel 6
Man: Who's top of the intellectual food chain now?!
Woman (red hair): Hey... watch this.
Panel 7
Woman (grinning wide): I'm going to use these as if they're separate variables! Ha ha ha ha ha! MFFF!
Panel 8
Man: Good. Good. I think you've had enough for today.
Woman: I'll just head back to the physics department where... AAH!
Panel 9
Woman: How'd you get loose?
Man: Knot theory!
Panel 10
Woman: What are you going to do to me?
Panel 11
Man (looming): Give you the general case of a mathematical technique which you only applied for a specific usage.
Panel 12
Woman: No! NOOOO! NOOOO!
Man: HAHAHAHA! HAHAHA!
Panel 13
Child: Whatcha think mommy and daddy are doing about?
Other child: Theorems, no doubt. Beautiful... beautiful theorems.
Votey:
A hand-lettered sign reads: "To everyone from SDCC! See you all next year!" with a small heart.
Alt text
A long vertical SMBC comic depicting two scientists tormenting each other with abuses of mathematics, drawn like a melodramatic captive scene. An older bald man in glasses leans menacingly toward a red-haired woman. He boasts about interpreting quantum electrodynamics in the 'best way to match mathematician theorems to empirical phenomenon,' but admits he really does it 'to make mathematicians cry,' grimacing through a gag-like 'MFF! MFFTY MMFFF!' He gloats, 'Who's top of the intellectual food chain now?!' The woman retaliates with a wide grin: 'I'm going to use these as if they're separate variables!' He decides she's 'had enough for today,' but as she tries to leave she's startled. Bound, she asks how he got loose; he answers 'Knot theory!' She asks what he'll do to her, and he looms over her threatening to 'give you the general case of a mathematical technique which you only applied for a specific usage,' as she screams 'NOOOO!' and he laughs maniacally. In the final panel, two small children watch and one says they must be doing 'theorems, no doubt, beautiful theorems.' The votey is a hand-lettered sign with a heart reading 'To everyone from SDCC! See you all next year!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.