Comic #2299: 2011-08-30

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Panel 1: Text: "THEY SAY KEKULÉ WAS IMAGINING A SNAKE EATING ITS OWN TAIL WHEN HE UNDERSTOOD THE STRUCTURE OF BENZENE." Image of a man with a beard, thinking.

Panel 2: Text: "IF IT'S SHAPED LIKE A RING OF ALTERNATING BONDS, ALL THE PIECES COME TOGETHER." Image shows the same man thinking.

Panel 3: Text: "THEY SAY EINSTEIN UNDERSTOOD RELATIVITY WHEN HE IMAGINED A MAN IN AN ELEVATOR." Image of another man with a mustache thinking.

Panel 4: Text: "IF YOU WERE IN AN ELEVATOR ACCELERATING UP, IT'D BE THE SAME FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE AS BEING IN A GRAVITY FIELD." Image shows the same man thinking about the elevator.

Panel 5: Text: "SOMETIMES I WONDER WHAT THE SCIENTISTS WHO FIGURED OUT PARTICLE SELF-INTERACTION WERE IMAGINING…" Image of a man with glasses, deep in thought.

Panel 6: Text: "WHEN NOBODY'S OBSERVING, THE PARTICLE LIKES TO INTERFERE WITH ITSELF." Image continues with the same man contemplating.

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