laws
Original: laws on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (labeled PHYSICS):
An older man with white hair and a beard, glasses: "There are 3 laws and then you can derive everything else."
Panel 2 (labeled BIOLOGY):
A person with long dark red hair and round glasses: "Laws? For SCIENCE?"
Panel 3 (labeled CHEMISTRY):
A person with reddish hair, gesturing with one hand: "There are 4,000 laws which always work as long as you're not in one of the 29,000 situations where they don't."
Votey (labeled ECONOMICS):
A person with glasses: "There are many laws we will spend the semester learning not to believe in."
An older man with white hair and a beard, glasses: "There are 3 laws and then you can derive everything else."
Panel 2 (labeled BIOLOGY):
A person with long dark red hair and round glasses: "Laws? For SCIENCE?"
Panel 3 (labeled CHEMISTRY):
A person with reddish hair, gesturing with one hand: "There are 4,000 laws which always work as long as you're not in one of the 29,000 situations where they don't."
Votey (labeled ECONOMICS):
A person with glasses: "There are many laws we will spend the semester learning not to believe in."
Alt text
A four-part comic contrasting how different sciences treat "laws." Panel 1, labeled PHYSICS: an old bearded man in glasses says, "There are 3 laws and then you can derive everything else." Panel 2, labeled BIOLOGY: a person with long dark-red hair and round glasses looks puzzled and says, "Laws? For SCIENCE?" Panel 3, labeled CHEMISTRY: a person gestures and says, "There are 4,000 laws which always work as long as you're not in one of the 29,000 situations where they don't." The aftercomic (votey), labeled ECONOMICS, shows a person in glasses saying, "There are many laws we will spend the semester learning not to believe in." The joke escalates from physics' tidy three laws to economics' laws you're taught to distrust.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.