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{{comic | number = 3544 | date = November 15, 2014 | title = 2014-11-15 | image = 20141115.png | votey = 20141115after.png | titletext = 2014-11-15 }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== :[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. <i>Bam.</i> No paradoxes. :[Panel 8: Blue in the foreground, orange in the background.] :Orange: That is <i>brilliant.</i> 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! {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Non-Zorblaxian aliens]]
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