the-meissner-effect
Original: the-meissner-effect on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair: Are you familiar with the Meissner Effect?
Panel 2:
The woman: When a superconductor gets cool enough, it suddenly ejects its magnetic field
Panel 3:
The woman: So the magnetic field lines move around the superconductor instead of through it
Panel 4:
The woman: I have this theory that if a person becomes cold enough emotionally, they have a mental Meissner Effect, where other people's feelings simply warp around them with no impediment
Panel 5:
A man with reddish hair: I told you I didn't forget your birthday. I just got stuck at work.
The woman: Wow! How do the feelings just flow around you where not to enter?
Votey:
A woman (off-panel mother figure): The family would like to continue eating.
The man (grinning): I've cornered the Meissner Effect joke market!
A child at the bottom: NO!
A woman with dark hair: Are you familiar with the Meissner Effect?
Panel 2:
The woman: When a superconductor gets cool enough, it suddenly ejects its magnetic field
Panel 3:
The woman: So the magnetic field lines move around the superconductor instead of through it
Panel 4:
The woman: I have this theory that if a person becomes cold enough emotionally, they have a mental Meissner Effect, where other people's feelings simply warp around them with no impediment
Panel 5:
A man with reddish hair: I told you I didn't forget your birthday. I just got stuck at work.
The woman: Wow! How do the feelings just flow around you where not to enter?
Votey:
A woman (off-panel mother figure): The family would like to continue eating.
The man (grinning): I've cornered the Meissner Effect joke market!
A child at the bottom: NO!
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A dark-haired woman explains the Meissner Effect to a red-haired man: when a superconductor gets cool enough it ejects its magnetic field, so magnetic field lines move around the superconductor instead of through it. She then says she has a theory that if a person becomes cold enough emotionally, they have a 'mental Meissner Effect' where other people's feelings simply warp around them with no impediment. In the final panel the man says, 'I told you I didn't forget your birthday. I just got stuck at work,' and she replies, 'Wow! How do the feelings just flow around you?'—revealing he is the emotionally cold superconductor in her analogy. Votey: A rougher sketch shows a frowning mother saying 'The family would like to continue eating,' while the grinning man boasts 'I've cornered the Meissner Effect joke market!' and a child at the bottom shouts 'NO!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.