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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by 10^-47 BROTHERS. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | In part, this comic is an homage to the referenced podcast, ''{{w|My Brother, My Brother, and Me}}'', which often features rapid garden-path conversations and puns and double entendres that are at once groan-worthy and delightfully witty | + | In part, this comic is an homage to the referenced podcast, ''{{w|My Brother, My Brother, and Me}}'', which often features rapid garden-path conversations and puns and double entendres that are at once groan-worthy and delightfully witty. |
− | The millibar is a metric unit of pressure | + | The millibar is a metric unit of pressure, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Bar (unit)|bar}}, or 100 Pa. Pressure is the force per area, meaning that pressure increases, either when the area is minimized or the force increased (Think about applying the same force through a needle pin or through a large surface, and see which punctuates more). |
− | The millibarn is a metric unit of area, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Barn (unit)|barn}} | + | The millibarn is a metric unit of area, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Barn (unit)|barn}}, or 10^-31 m^2. Both units would theoretically have the symbol '''mb''' (though '''mbar''' for the pressure unit is more common). |
− | ''' | + | Hence, '''mbmb''' (the pressure unit multiplied by the area unit) would be a unit of force. This can be seen by applying dimensional analysis; pressure x area = (force/area) x area = force. |
− | + | '''am''' would be the symbol of an {{w|Atto-|atto}}meter, or 10^-18 metres. Multiply that to create the unit '''mbmbam''', which would be a unit of energy. Specifically, it would be a unit of work: the energy expended to move an object. More dimensional analysis: force x distance = (work/distance) x distance = work. The actual value of 1 mbmbam is correctly calculated in the comic: 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 x 10^-18 m = 10^-47 Kg force-meters, which roughly equals 9.9 times 10^-47. | |
− | The | + | The final panel is an extended series of puns--that yeast rises, for one (implicitly of a spontaneously generated energy, a reference to black body radiation); a second soon follows about spacetime having unleavened dimensions in {{w|string theory}}. This seems to be a punning reference to spacetime having eleven (actually, ten--M theory says eleven) dimensions in string theory, while continuing to play on the theme of yeast--in this case, the universe is presumably flat because some of its dimensions lack the Planck yeast that would make them rise. |
− | The | + | The example of lifting a yeast cell used in the comic is one of many interpretations of the work. Another interpretation of 1 mbmbam would be the work necessary to pull two socially distancing (6 ft) COVID-19 virions apart by the thickness of a single strand of hair, against the gravity they exert on each other. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing next to each other, talking. Megan has her hands raised to the side, in a shrugging gesture.] | :[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing next to each other, talking. Megan has her hands raised to the side, in a shrugging gesture.] | ||
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:[Same scene - Megan is now checking her phone. White Hat is raising his right index finger.] | :[Same scene - Megan is now checking her phone. White Hat is raising his right index finger.] | ||
− | :Cueball: So what's '''mbmbam''', the My-Brother-My-Brother-And Me unit? | + | :Cueball: So what's '''mbmbam''', the My-Brother-My-Brother-And-Me unit? |
− | :Megan: Millibar- | + | :Megan: Millibar-millibarn-attometer, I guess? That'd be a unit of energy. 10<sup>-47</sup> Joules. |
:White Hat: "One podcast" | :White Hat: "One podcast" | ||
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:Megan: Yeah, that's what makes quantum foam. But data suggests our universe is flat. | :Megan: Yeah, that's what makes quantum foam. But data suggests our universe is flat. | ||
:Megan: String theory says it's because spacetime has unleavened dimensions. | :Megan: String theory says it's because spacetime has unleavened dimensions. | ||
− | :White Hat: ''...I hate you.'' | + | :White Hat: ''... I hate you.'' |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Physics]] | [[Category:Physics]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category: Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category: Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category: Comics featuring White Hat]] | [[Category: Comics featuring White Hat]] |