Comic #4643: quantum-weirdness

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Panel 1: Person 1: "God, why is quantum mechanics so weird?"
Person 2: "It's Noah's fault."

Panel 2: Person 2: "After the flood, I wanted to make a rainbow for him."
(Background text) "In order to make a rainbow, you have to 'break' light into wavelengths when it encounters a new medium."

Panel 3: Person 2: "Well, it turns out that if you want that, you have to twiddle with a bunch of aspects of the universe, adding weird stuff like photon superposition and probability amplitudes."
(Background text continues) "But, every time I fixed one thing, something else seemed to break. So, I kept changing things and changing things and the system got more and more hacky as time went on."

Panel 4: Person 2: "Finally, it got fundamentally ugly. I added uncertainty so nobody could look too close."
Person 1: "That explains all of physics AND what you said to Noah after the flood."
Person 2: "Exactly."

Panel 5: (Top text) "4,000 years earlier…"
Image: A large ship (Noah's Ark) with a rainbow overhead.
Person 2 (on the ship): "Never again."

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