real-3
Original: real-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 — EINSTEIN:
Reality is really real! Physical things are actual and we can understand them! "Relativity" means the laws work the same in every frame of reference!
Panel 2 — SCHRODINGER:
Quantum mechanics must be incomplete because reality has to be real! You can't have an alive and dead cat at the same time!
Panel 3 — GODEL:
Mathematical reality is real! It's the realest sense of reality! It's realer than the stuff that gets called real!
Panel 4 — SOME GUY:
...and Einstein, Schrodinger, and Godel proved that nothing is true and everything is subjective.
Votey:
(It was actually John Bell who ruined reality.)
Reality is really real! Physical things are actual and we can understand them! "Relativity" means the laws work the same in every frame of reference!
Panel 2 — SCHRODINGER:
Quantum mechanics must be incomplete because reality has to be real! You can't have an alive and dead cat at the same time!
Panel 3 — GODEL:
Mathematical reality is real! It's the realest sense of reality! It's realer than the stuff that gets called real!
Panel 4 — SOME GUY:
...and Einstein, Schrodinger, and Godel proved that nothing is true and everything is subjective.
Votey:
(It was actually John Bell who ruined reality.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: Albert Einstein, labeled EINSTEIN, declares, "Reality is really real! Physical things are actual and we can understand them! 'Relativity' means the laws work the same in every frame of reference!" Panel 2: Erwin Schrodinger, labeled SCHRODINGER, in a bow tie, says, "Quantum mechanics must be incomplete because reality has to be real! You can't have an alive and dead cat at the same time!" Panel 3: Kurt Godel, labeled GODEL, in round glasses, insists, "Mathematical reality is real! It's the realest sense of reality! It's realer than the stuff that gets called real!" Panel 4: A young man with closed eyes, labeled SOME GUY, calmly states, "...and Einstein, Schrodinger, and Godel proved that nothing is true and everything is subjective." The joke: three thinkers who each fiercely insisted reality is real get casually misquoted as proving the opposite. Votey: a hand-lettered caption reads, "(It was actually John Bell who ruined reality.)"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.