antimatter-2
Original: antimatter-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (Lecturer, a woman with dark hair):
"...AND SO, ANTIMATTER POPS OUT OF THE EQUATIONS NATURALLY."
Panel 2 (A student in the audience):
"QUESTION!"
Panel 3 (Lecturer):
"YES-"
Panel 4 (Student):
"SINCE DIRAC DISCOVERED THEM, WHY DO WE CALL THEM ANTIMATTER AND NOT DIRACULA?"
Panel 5 (mock newspaper headline):
"PHYSICS PROFS RETIRE EN MASSE"
Subheading on the paper: "CITE 'EXTREME AND UNREMITTING SORROW.'"
Votey:
(A person looks downcast, hand on chin.)
Person (thought/speech): "WE COULD HAVE HAD SPOOKY DIRACULA AT A DISTANCE..."
"...AND SO, ANTIMATTER POPS OUT OF THE EQUATIONS NATURALLY."
Panel 2 (A student in the audience):
"QUESTION!"
Panel 3 (Lecturer):
"YES-"
Panel 4 (Student):
"SINCE DIRAC DISCOVERED THEM, WHY DO WE CALL THEM ANTIMATTER AND NOT DIRACULA?"
Panel 5 (mock newspaper headline):
"PHYSICS PROFS RETIRE EN MASSE"
Subheading on the paper: "CITE 'EXTREME AND UNREMITTING SORROW.'"
Votey:
(A person looks downcast, hand on chin.)
Person (thought/speech): "WE COULD HAVE HAD SPOOKY DIRACULA AT A DISTANCE..."
Alt text
A physics lecture comic. A dark-haired woman lecturing says antimatter pops out of the equations naturally. A student shouts "Question!" and, when called on, asks: since Dirac discovered them, why do we call them antimatter and not "Diracula"? The final panel shows a mock newspaper headline: "PHYSICS PROFS RETIRE EN MASSE," citing "extreme and unremitting sorrow" over the pun. Votey: a downcast person with hand on chin laments, "We could have had spooky Diracula at a distance..." (a play on "spooky action at a distance").
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.