Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC)
How to Spot a Physicist
How to Spot a Physicist © Zach Weinersmith · Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) · © Zach Weinersmith
Why it lands
Dark matter is called dark because, as far as anyone has measured, it does not interact with light or ordinary matter except through gravity. An "interactive" dark-matter exhibit is a contradiction only a physicist would notice, which is exactly the point: the sign is a filter, and the giggle is the signal.
Transcript
- WE NEED A WAY TO DETECT WHEN PHYSICISTS ENTER
- THE MUSEUM.
- PFFT. THAT'S EASY JUST PUT THIS SIGN UP THEN FIND THE ONE PERSON IN A THOUSAND WHO STARTS GIGGLING.
- Today: Interactive Dark Matter Exhibit!
Credits
- Original
- How to Spot a Physicist — Zach Weinersmith, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC)
- License
- © Zach Weinersmith
The English page shows the original image unmodified. The Japanese page shows an adaptation by wtfe²: the lettering was erased from the art and replaced with a Japanese translation. The adaptation is shared under the same license as the original.