2d
Original: 2d on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bald, bearded man at a podium (caption later identifies him as Professor Susskind), gesturing: "...THEREFORE, WE CAN EXPLAIN OUR APPARENT THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE AS A HOLOGRAM ENCODED IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FIELD!"
Man (continuing, arms spread wide): "YOU SEE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS?! WE WERE RIGHT! RIGHT ALL ALONG!"
Caption below the panel:
Every so often, Professor Susskind sneaks into meetings of the Flat Earth Society to promote holographic cosmology.
Votey:
Close-up sketch of the same bearded man, looking down. Caption above him: "ALSO, COSMOLOGICALLY SPEAKING, EVERYONE IS FLAT-CHESTED."
Bald, bearded man at a podium (caption later identifies him as Professor Susskind), gesturing: "...THEREFORE, WE CAN EXPLAIN OUR APPARENT THREE-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE AS A HOLOGRAM ENCODED IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FIELD!"
Man (continuing, arms spread wide): "YOU SEE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS?! WE WERE RIGHT! RIGHT ALL ALONG!"
Caption below the panel:
Every so often, Professor Susskind sneaks into meetings of the Flat Earth Society to promote holographic cosmology.
Votey:
Close-up sketch of the same bearded man, looking down. Caption above him: "ALSO, COSMOLOGICALLY SPEAKING, EVERYONE IS FLAT-CHESTED."
Alt text
A bald, gray-bearded man in a button-up shirt stands at a podium, smiling and gesturing as if addressing a crowd. He declares: "...therefore, we can explain our apparent three-dimensional universe as a hologram encoded in a two-dimensional field! You see, brothers and sisters?! We were right! Right all along!" A caption beneath reads: "Every so often, Professor Susskind sneaks into meetings of the Flat Earth Society to promote holographic cosmology." The joke: a real physicist's holographic-principle theory is reframed as confirmation for flat-earthers, since it casts the universe as fundamentally two-dimensional. Votey (aftercomic): a loose pencil-style close-up of the same bearded man looking down, with the caption "Also, cosmologically speaking, everyone is flat-chested."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.