Comic #7255: elegant

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Panel 1: A man with red hair, wearing a blue jacket with a collar, stands next to a woman with medium-length brown hair, who is wearing a purple shirt. They are outside at night, looking at a starry sky. The man is saying, "I believe we have evidence that the universe is in fact a mathematical object." The woman responds, "How could you ever prove something like that?"

Panel 2: The man, still talking, gestures towards the sky while the woman looks at him. The man says, "Look at this cosmos. Look how inelegant it all is! Infinite possible elements that never get used! Probabilistic particles? Non-unified forces? Lack of agreement between observers?"

Panel 3: The man continues, speaking with emphasis, "And look at math! Most numbers are irrational! Most questions, even ones that a child can understand, don't permit a closed-form equation!"

Panel 4: The woman, seeming skeptical, responds, "The most useful problems can't be solved without computational explosion! Predictions that should be easy become impossible when you add the tiniest bit of chaos!"

Panel 5: A larger view shows both characters, with the woman folding her arms. The man gestures animatedly as he says, "The bewildering crappiness of reality could only be produced by a bewilderingly crappy deep structure!"

Panel 6: The woman, now appearing more thoughtful, asks, "But if the universe is so bad, how come it still basically works?"

Panel 7: The man replies, "I believe the designer had a more ambitious goal, but decided not to pursue it and just finished the cosmos to get it over with."

Panel 8: The woman looks intrigued, saying "Meaning—" while looking back at the man.

Panel 9: The man exclaims, "God is the master, and we are his master’s thesis!" Both characters appear animated and engaged in their discussion, with the starry sky behind them.