enemy
Original: enemy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with curly dark hair and round glasses: Do you think physics should make some intuitive sense or just predict the outcome of measurements?
Panel 2:
Woman with straight orange hair: I'm a simple person. I think physics should just predict what measurements it can, then label everything else "the enemy."
Panel 3:
Woman with orange hair: That way every time a new discovery is confirmed, the enemy suffers defeat.
Panel 4:
Woman with dark curly hair (in silhouette): But why? What does personifying the unknown as a foreign villain add?
Woman with orange hair (in silhouette): Several billion dollars of military research funding.
Votey:
Caption (no speaker shown, over a sketch of a woman's face): I wonder if we could get a new particle collider if we declared war on bosons.
Woman with curly dark hair and round glasses: Do you think physics should make some intuitive sense or just predict the outcome of measurements?
Panel 2:
Woman with straight orange hair: I'm a simple person. I think physics should just predict what measurements it can, then label everything else "the enemy."
Panel 3:
Woman with orange hair: That way every time a new discovery is confirmed, the enemy suffers defeat.
Panel 4:
Woman with dark curly hair (in silhouette): But why? What does personifying the unknown as a foreign villain add?
Woman with orange hair (in silhouette): Several billion dollars of military research funding.
Votey:
Caption (no speaker shown, over a sketch of a woman's face): I wonder if we could get a new particle collider if we declared war on bosons.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A woman with curly dark hair and round glasses asks another woman, who has straight orange hair, whether physics should make intuitive sense or just predict measurement outcomes. The orange-haired woman says she's a simple person: physics should just predict what measurements it can, then label everything else "the enemy," so that every confirmed discovery means the enemy suffers defeat. In the final panel, shown in black silhouette, the glasses-wearing woman asks why personifying the unknown as a foreign villain helps; the orange-haired woman answers, "Several billion dollars of military research funding." Votey: over a loose sketch of a woman's face, a caption reads, "I wonder if we could get a new particle collider if we declared war on bosons."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.