Editing 2511: Recreate the Conditions

{{comic
| number    = 2511
| date      = September 3, 2021
| title     = Recreate the Conditions
| image     = recreate_the_conditions.png
| titletext = We've almost finished constructing the piña collider.
}}

==Explanation==

Scientists recreate conditions of things to gain scientific knowledge on a topic to better be able to observe why or how things happen. This could be done by making miniature versions of events and simulating events using safe methods.

In this comic, [[Megan]]'s lab discovered that the conditions during the seconds after the {{w|Big Bang}} were extremely hot and unpleasant.  They have thus decided to attempt to recreate the conditions of a {{w|tropical}} {{w|beach}} in 2014 instead (7 years prior to when this comic was released). Here, the joke is that instead of recreating a condition  for scientific study purposes, Megan and her crew were simply trying to create a pleasant environment for recreation, in the sense of personal enjoyment.

The title text is a reference to [[1949: Fruit Collider]] a pun of {{w|piña colada}} (Spanish for "strained Pineapple") and a particle {{w|collider}}: the Spanish word "colada" is pronounced similarly to the English word "collider". Taken literally, "piña collider" would be a pineapple collider, which may be interpreted as a fruit juicing machine for making piña coladas.

==Transcript==
:[Megan is standing, pointing a stick at a poster of a particle collision in a particle collider where many other particles emerge from the central collision, a black spot, with many thin curved lines going away from it, and two larger beams going straight in. Above that upper part of these lines there are three lines of unreadable text, three unreadable labels are written over three of the lines, and there are two unreadable lines of text at the bottom one at each side of the poster]
:Megan: Our lab was trying to recreate the conditions that occurred seconds after the Big Bang.

:[Megan is standing with arms lifted to each side, stick in hand, looking straight out, in an otherwise empty panel.]
:Megan: But it turns out they were ''extremely'' hot and unpleasant.

:[Megan points at another poster with the stick. The poster shows a picture of a beach, with the sun over the ocean, a palm tree bending in over a parasol stuck in the sand. At the front there is a small table with two drinks on it.]
:Megan: So now we're trying to recreate the conditions that occurred on this tropical beach in early 2014.
:Megan: Honestly don't know why we were doing that other thing.

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