Comic #5872: pp

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Title Panel:
THE PHYSICISTS HAVE HAD IT TOO GOOD FOR TOO LONG!

Scene Description:
AT THE ANNUAL N-TUPLE OF ANGRY LOGICIANS…

Panel 1:
WOMAN SPEAKING:
Why is it that when huxters sell snake oil it’s quantum this and uncertainty that? Computer science furnishes just as many opportunities to lie to the consumer?

Panel 2:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
Why aren’t there meditation sessions where a guy in robes tells you the conscious mind is NP-complete, but if you breathe properly then P=NP?

Panel 3:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
Gödel! Gödel says there are always truths that can’t be proved within a logical system! Why is this not used to sell vitamin water or some fancy kind of enema?!

Panel 4:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
Don’t tell me this stuff is unprovable because it’s complicated! Stephen Hawking sold a million books on black holes and spacetime and nobody has read a single page of them!

Panel 5:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
Our findings are just as easily misconstrued as theirs! Where is the “BQP sports drink?” Where is the chiropractor promising to cure your cancer in polynomial time?

Panel 6:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
We demand equal representation in the halls of quackery!

Panel 7:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
We will not rest until error correction algorithms are said to detoxify your chakra! We will not tire until there’s a wine-cleansing tea called PTIME and a homeopathic RECECTABLE called PSPACE!

Panel 8:
WOMAN CONTINUING:
We could join the physicists and sell “quantum error correction” tablets.

Final Panel:
WOMAN SPEAKING:
CHOOSE A SIDE!

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