Comic #3468: 2014-11-15
Description
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Panel 1:
- Text: "What's the matter?"
- An alien character responds, "Have you heard of Schrödinger's cat?"
- Visuals: Two colorful swirling circles, one light blue and the other yellow, against a dark background.
Panel 2:
- Text: "It's a human idea. Due to the quantum nature of a system, you can have a cat that is both alive and dead at once. It's not one or the other until you observe. It's a sort of paradox. Like… how can it be both? Is reality even real?"
- Visuals: The swirling circles remain, visually representing the discussion.
Panel 3:
- Text: "Nonsense. There's a trivial solution: kill all cats. If all cats are dead, the cat in the box is dead. No ambiguity."
- Visuals: Continuation of the colorful swirls.
Panel 4:
- Text: "Well, that doesn't solve the problem. They also have a version with gunpowder that is both exploded and not exploded until you observe."
- Visuals: The conversation continues with the swirling circles.
Panel 5:
- Text: "Trivial solution: explode all gunpowder."
- A response: "You're missing the point."
- Visuals: The aliens continue discussing the issue.
Panel 6:
- Text: "No, I'm not. This is easily resolvable: find all things that could exist in two or more states and reduce them to one state. Bam. No paradoxes."
- Visuals: The swirling circles briefly indicate that ideas are flowing.
Panel 7:
- Text: "That… is brilliant! Let's do it!"
- Visuals: Excitement is visually represented in the characters.
Panel 8:
- Text: "About ten billion years later…"
- Characters are now visible, one asking, "But professor, why was the universe a singularity before the big bang?"
- Another character answers, "Nobody knows."
- Visuals: The scene shows a classroom with aliens. One alien sits at a desk covered in equations and notes.
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