2012-08-25
Original: 2012-08-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Professor (a gray-haired person with round glasses, lecturing): "So the male and female particles interact. They then split apart, at which point it is possible the female particle will emit a baby, in a process called baby emission."
(A Feynman-style diagram is shown, drawn with male and female gender symbols on the particle lines.)
Panel 2:
A student (a person with reddish-brown hair) raising a hand: "Doesn't that violate conservation of money?"
Panel 3:
Professor: "Money is not shown on the diagram, but is carried by the initial set of particles, then lost to them during baby emission."
Panel 4:
Another student (a woman with dark hair, in a yellow shirt): "What if the two left-side particles are of the same type?"
Panel 5:
Professor (gesturing at the diagram): "The particles interact and overall money remains conserved. So far, no baby emission has been observed."
(The diagram now shows same-type particle symbols.)
Panel 6:
The reddish-brown-haired student: "Uh... professor... I'm a biblical literalist, so..."
Professor: "Ah... I see..."
Panel 7:
Professor: "I'm sorry, but in this class we do not deal with spontaneous baby emission."
Votey:
A person with flame-like/curly hair, eyes closed: "I prefer 'immaculate emission.'"
Professor (a gray-haired person with round glasses, lecturing): "So the male and female particles interact. They then split apart, at which point it is possible the female particle will emit a baby, in a process called baby emission."
(A Feynman-style diagram is shown, drawn with male and female gender symbols on the particle lines.)
Panel 2:
A student (a person with reddish-brown hair) raising a hand: "Doesn't that violate conservation of money?"
Panel 3:
Professor: "Money is not shown on the diagram, but is carried by the initial set of particles, then lost to them during baby emission."
Panel 4:
Another student (a woman with dark hair, in a yellow shirt): "What if the two left-side particles are of the same type?"
Panel 5:
Professor (gesturing at the diagram): "The particles interact and overall money remains conserved. So far, no baby emission has been observed."
(The diagram now shows same-type particle symbols.)
Panel 6:
The reddish-brown-haired student: "Uh... professor... I'm a biblical literalist, so..."
Professor: "Ah... I see..."
Panel 7:
Professor: "I'm sorry, but in this class we do not deal with spontaneous baby emission."
Votey:
A person with flame-like/curly hair, eyes closed: "I prefer 'immaculate emission.'"
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. A gray-haired professor with round glasses lectures using a Feynman-diagram drawn with male and female gender symbols, explaining: "So the male and female particles interact. They then split apart, at which point it is possible the female particle will emit a baby, in a process called baby emission." A student raises a hand and asks, "Doesn't that violate conservation of money?" The professor replies that money isn't shown on the diagram but is carried by the initial particles and lost during baby emission. A dark-haired woman student asks, "What if the two left-side particles are of the same type?" The professor, pointing at a same-type diagram, says the particles interact, money stays conserved, and "So far, no baby emission has been observed." Another student says, "Uh... professor... I'm a biblical literalist, so..." and the professor answers, "Ah... I see... I'm sorry, but in this class we do not deal with spontaneous baby emission." The joke treats human reproduction as particle physics, then collides it with religious literalism. Votey: a person with flame-like hair, eyes closed, says smugly, "I prefer 'immaculate emission.'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.