Comic #3870: science-communication

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Panel 1
Person with glasses and gray hair: "WELCOME TO DAY ONE OF SCIENCE JOURNALISM. TODAY, WE WILL LEARN HOW TO COMMUNICATE PHYSICS."

Panel 2
Person: "QUANTUM MECHANICS. THE ENTIRE FIELD OF QUANTUM MECHANICS IS ABOUT HOW YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN A BOX UNTIL YOU OPEN IT."
Another character responds: "YOU ESPECIALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IF THERE'S A CAT IN THE BOX."

Panel 3
Person continues: "RELATIVITY. A THEORY INVENTED BY EINSTEIN, WHICH SUGGESTS THAT ONE GUY MIGHT SAY 'IT'S LIKE THIS,' BUT ANOTHER GUY MIGHT BE LIKE 'SEZ YOU, BUDDY.'"

Panel 4
Person: "EINSTEIN DISCOVERED IT WHEN AN APPLE FELL ON HIS HEAD, AND HE THOUGHT 'MAYBE IT WAS ME WHO FELL ON THE APPLE'S HEAD.'"

Panel 5
Person: "FINALLY, QUANTUM COMPUTING IS WHEN YOU TAKE A COMPUTER AND PUT IT IN A BOX. YOU OPEN IT LATER AND IT'S SOLVED AN INFINITELY COMPLICATED PROBLEM."

Panel 6
Person: "THIS IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN A BOX UNTIL YOU OPEN IT, SO MAYBE IT'S SOLVING INFINITY PROBLEMS IN THERE."

Panel 7
Another character: "COULD SOME OF THOSE THINGS BE MUSHED TOGETHER TO EXPLAIN CONSCIOUSNESS?"
Person responds: "ABSOLUTELY."