It’s guest week at XKCD, as Randall Munroe deals with a family illness. (Fortunately for the guest artists, it’s relatively easy to mimic his style.) Today’s contribution came from Bill Amend of Foxtrot fame, who gives us what might be the best Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle joke I’ve seen.
Poor Werner, he is so stereotyped. This is just a variation on the standard Heisenberg joke. The one I have read most often is the one in which Heisenberg gets caught for speeding, and the policeman asks, “Do you know how fast you were going?” I suppose you can guess WH’s reply.
http://elmucho.wordpress.com/ Rob Haskell
An alternate punch line might be, “You’re looking straight at them.” :0)
http://readingcirclebooks.com Andrew Wetzel (@CircleReader)
I’d have asked him, “Can you forget how you were last moving them?”
nick anderson
I like the Schrodinger T-shirt I saw recently. The front said “Schrodinger’s cat is dead” and the back of the shirt said “Schrodinger’s cat is alive”.
Nick Ernst
Oh those Heisenbergs – you never know exactly what trouble they’ll get into next. My favorite though is still the old Dresden Codak comic, Lil’ Werner.
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Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
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