physics-is-poetry
Original: physics-is-poetry on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair and glasses: PHYSICS IS THE POETRY OF REALITY!
Panel 2:
A woman with dark hair stands beside him.
Woman: WHY DO PHYSICS PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY THAT? I TALKED TO YOU LAST WEEK ABOUT POETRY AND YOU SAID IT WAS BORING AND POINTLESS.
Panel 3:
Red-haired man (looking shaken): MY GOD.
Panel 4:
Red-haired man: THEN BY THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY OF LANGUAGE... I HATE WHAT I DO.
Panel 5:
Red-haired man: I HATE TRUTH. I HATE BEAUTY.
Woman: SO...
Panel 6:
Red-haired man: I GUESS I HAVE TO BECOME AN ECONOMIST NOW.
The woman looks at him, unimpressed.
Votey:
The scene is mostly black scribbles and chaos. Two speech bubbles emerge.
Voice: Don't give in!
Another voice (the man): But I feel so powerful ("powerful" is underlined).
A man's face appears at the lower right, sweating/strained.
Man with red hair and glasses: PHYSICS IS THE POETRY OF REALITY!
Panel 2:
A woman with dark hair stands beside him.
Woman: WHY DO PHYSICS PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY THAT? I TALKED TO YOU LAST WEEK ABOUT POETRY AND YOU SAID IT WAS BORING AND POINTLESS.
Panel 3:
Red-haired man (looking shaken): MY GOD.
Panel 4:
Red-haired man: THEN BY THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY OF LANGUAGE... I HATE WHAT I DO.
Panel 5:
Red-haired man: I HATE TRUTH. I HATE BEAUTY.
Woman: SO...
Panel 6:
Red-haired man: I GUESS I HAVE TO BECOME AN ECONOMIST NOW.
The woman looks at him, unimpressed.
Votey:
The scene is mostly black scribbles and chaos. Two speech bubbles emerge.
Voice: Don't give in!
Another voice (the man): But I feel so powerful ("powerful" is underlined).
A man's face appears at the lower right, sweating/strained.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a red-haired man in glasses declares, "Physics is the poetry of reality!" Panel 2: a dark-haired woman beside him replies, "Why do physics people always say that? I talked to you last week about poetry and you said it was boring and pointless." Panel 3: the man, stunned, says, "My god." Panel 4: he continues, "Then by the transitive property of language... I hate what I do." Panel 5: he says, "I hate truth. I hate beauty," as the woman starts, "So..." Panel 6: he concludes, "I guess I have to become an economist now," while the woman looks unimpressed. Votey: a panel filled with chaotic black scribbles; a voice warns "Don't give in!" and the strained, sweating man's face appears at lower right saying "But I feel so powerful" (powerful underlined), as if seduced by becoming an economist.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.