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Keurig Metric

🕑 Added 2019-02-05 03:17:17 +0000 UTC

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Katherine Prewitt

I just love Emily.

Clifton Royston

I actually spent a while looking up space-time metrics, to see if there were any which would make a good pun with Keurig - sadly, it appears there are not. (Apparently that's just the kind of nerd I am.)

Brian

Lorentz had a beard and didn’t speak English

I thought I empathize the most with May, but today Emily took the crown.

Summer Sudbrink

And now we know why the blackboard didn’t have anything written on it.

Samuel Krahl

Totally agree! Of course Sheldon can be nice. You are just not worthy of his best effort 😉

Joshua Brumley

Heh... The more I think about it, the more I believe that Emily is this universe's Sheldon Cooper. You know, if Sheldon was actually nice. :)

William Burns

Wouldn't he have said, "Dank je!" then, and had a beard?

Grace Kieser

More likely he drew it once and just used the free transform tool in Photoshop and just copy-pasted it

Bagge

Emily seems a bit extra hyper today. Did she drink espresso again?

Dean Reilly

$4.50 is a good price for a Lorentz factor. I hope Dora isn't losing money on the deal.

Evgeniy Semyonov

It is good that it's Lorenz's birthday, and not, say, Husserl's. Otherwise they would be discussing phenomenological time and bearded German gentleman would ask for a Noemacchiato.

Bagge

I LOVE Dora's expressions. Especially when she eyes the 'medium Lorenz factor'

... or maybe Emily brought him back from the past.

I think everybody on the thread so far has missed the joke. The old-timey European guy *IS* Lorenz. He travelled in time.

awgiedawgie

With the right software, he'd only have to draw them once, and then just manipulate them for each different view, but that's still a lot of fiddly scribbling.

SpookyPenguin

It was a good joke and as usual the nerds missed it.

awgiedawgie

Scroll down to my reply to Jonathan Pesek's query. Also scroll up to Andrew Kunz's "fun fact".

Simran Khalsa

Emily is demonstrating why Marigold's last comment from yesterday's comic wouldn't work. (had to share, 'cause it took me a moment to make the connection)

Easy peasy. You see the mi in the denominator of the summation? mi is always zero, which means the term evaluates to an undefined value, meaning that information can go in _any direction_. In other words, the exact opposite of what Emily is claiming.

can we just appreciate the amount of time to write those equations four times

Jonathan Pesek

...could someone please explain the joke? Maybe I'm just overanalyzing it...

Celine Chamberlin

It's a secret?

Chris Gallaty

Jeph just needs to send his former self a message to.... Damn it!

Brian

That’s been my theory for ages. It would explain why she’s in the area.

BobC

Ummm... No. You'd need the path-integral form for that.

Dylan T

...Did Emily make Spookybot?

Saketh Kasibatla

:( I don't get it

Matt Grayson

Time for Spookybot to cough politely and say “Marten will come by in 2 minutes and 43 seconds and order a mocha.”

Brian

Jeph are you secretly a genius or something?

ysth

Which side?

Miyaa

Fun fact, today (4 February) is the date of the death of Hendrik Lorentz, the Danish Physicists who created the Lorentz Transformation Equations. At his funeral on 10 February 1928, telephone and telegraph services were halted for 3 minutes all over his native Holland. He has a crater on the moon named after him.

Fart Captor

Emily is the best

Justin McCulloch

b a s k

Jermops

goddamn i appreciate you and your humor, good sir.

Mitchell Sealy

A lorentz factor, obviously.

Lalo Martins

I wonder what she actually served him

Mordaeus

Oh god, I just realized how tedious it must have been filling out that chalkboard over and over...

Yonatan Zunger

I love that these are actually legit equations for propagation of fermions across closed timelike curves.

nowshowjj

I'm currently reading through book 1 of the QC collection and I would like to request the return of Pintsize's laser. Also, today/tomorrow's comic is hilarious.