2014-11-15

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2014-11-15

Title text: 2014-11-15

Votey

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[Panel 1: Two ephemeral blobs, a blue one on the left and an orange one on the right, float in a black void with white specks in the background.]

Blue: What's the matter?

Orange: Have you heard of Schrödinger's cat?

[Panel 2: Just the orange blob.]

Orange: It's a human idea. Due to the quantum nature of a system, you can have a cat that is both alive and dead at once. It's not one or the other until you observe. It's a sort of paradox like. How can it be both? Is reality even real?

[Panels 3 and 4 are side by side.]

[Panel 3: Just the blue blob.]

Blue: Nonsense. There's a trivial solution: Kill all cats. If all cats are dead, the cat in the box is dead. No ambiguity. No ambiguity.

[Panel 4: Blue in the foreground, orange in the background.]

Orange: Well, that doesn't solve the problem. They also have a version with gunpowder that is both exploded and not exploded until you observe.

[Panels 5 and 6 are side by side.]

[Panel 5: Just the blue blob.]

Blue: Trivial solution: Explode all gunpowder.

[Panel 6: Just orange.]

Orange: You're missing the point.

[Panels 7 and 8 are side by side, with 7 slightly wider.]

[Panel 7: Just the blue blob.]

Blue: No, I'm not. This is easily resolvable: Find all things that could exist in two or more states and reduce them to one state. Bam. No paradoxes.

[Panel 8: Blue in the foreground, orange in the background.]

Orange: That is brilliant. Let's do it!

[Panel 9: Two octopus-like aliens in a purple room, one in the background wearing a collared shirt and tie stands in front of a blue board covered in alien symbols, as if teaching a class, while the other alien is a student raising their hand.]

Caption at top: About ten billion years later...

Student alien: But professor, why was the universe a singularity before the big bang?

Teacher alien: Nobody knows.

Votey Transcript

[One of the blobs.]

Blob: Suck it, multiverse!

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