three-2
Original: three-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with reddish/orange hair): God, why are there 3 space dimensions but only one time dimension?
Panel 2:
Disembodied voice (God): On average, only 70% of meetings start on time in your SINGLE axis of time.
Panel 3:
God (speech bubble): This universe is fine-tuned for deluxe cheeseburgers.
Panel 4:
God: If you have time squared, you have 70% of THAT by the time you're at 3-time, almost two-thirds of all meetings start late.
Panel 5:
God: If you can't have corporate meetings, you can't run large businesses with the complex supply chains required to get lettuce, bacon, meat, fresh buns, and a choice of condiments at any time of year.
Panel 6:
Man: So is this the best of all possible worlds?
Panel 7:
God: I like the burrito universe better but this is still a good one.
Votey:
Text on a small framed sign/tag: GOOD BURRITOS REQUIRE CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS.
Man (with reddish/orange hair): God, why are there 3 space dimensions but only one time dimension?
Panel 2:
Disembodied voice (God): On average, only 70% of meetings start on time in your SINGLE axis of time.
Panel 3:
God (speech bubble): This universe is fine-tuned for deluxe cheeseburgers.
Panel 4:
God: If you have time squared, you have 70% of THAT by the time you're at 3-time, almost two-thirds of all meetings start late.
Panel 5:
God: If you can't have corporate meetings, you can't run large businesses with the complex supply chains required to get lettuce, bacon, meat, fresh buns, and a choice of condiments at any time of year.
Panel 6:
Man: So is this the best of all possible worlds?
Panel 7:
God: I like the burrito universe better but this is still a good one.
Votey:
Text on a small framed sign/tag: GOOD BURRITOS REQUIRE CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired man stands looking upward, asking, "God, why are there 3 space dimensions but only one time dimension?" A disembodied voice (God) answers across several panels: "On average, only 70% of meetings start on time in your SINGLE axis of time." "This universe is fine-tuned for deluxe cheeseburgers." "If you have time squared, you have 70% of THAT by the time you're at 3-time, almost two-thirds of all meetings start late." "If you can't have corporate meetings, you can't run large businesses with the complex supply chains required to get lettuce, bacon, meat, fresh buns, and a choice of condiments at any time of year." The man asks, "So is this the best of all possible worlds?" God replies, "I like the burrito universe better but this is still a good one." The joke: the dimensionality of spacetime is humorously justified as being fine-tuned to enable the corporate supply chains needed to produce cheeseburgers. The votey (aftercomic) shows a small hand-drawn framed sign reading: "GOOD BURRITOS REQUIRE CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS" — a nod to the extra curled-up dimensions of string theory being what the rival burrito universe needs.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.