Editing 1869: Positive and Negative Reviews

{{comic
| number    = 1869
| date      = July 28, 2017
| title     = Positive and Negative Reviews
| image     = positive and negative reviews.png
| titletext = This restaurant is great! I was feeling really sick, but then I ate there and felt better!
}}

==Explanation==
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Positive and negative {{w|customer review}}s are explained like {{w|matter}} and {{w|antimatter}}. Physically, antimatter can be seen as matter going {{w|Antiparticle#Feynman–Stueckelberg interpretation|backwards in time}}.

The people giving negative reviews are {{w|Merlin}} (the wizard from the legends of King Arthur) and B. Button (from the short story "{{w|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button}}" and its {{w|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)|film adaptation}}). Merlin remembers the future; in the {{w|T. H. White}} novel series ''{{w|The Once and Future King}}'', he is said to have been born at the wrong end of time and live backwards. Benjamin Button was born with the physical appearance of an old man and grows younger as time progresses. There are many examples of such [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MerlinSickness "Merlin Sickness"] in fiction. Merlin was mentioned earlier in [[270: Merlin]].

In the title text, Randall gives an example of a positive review, which seems to actually be a negative review backwards in time.

So it gets philosophical and subjective: Are there only positive experiences in life - some going forward, some backwards in life. Or actually only negative ones.

Or is the positivity of an event not the only deciding property, whether one should see it as going forwards or backwards in life, like {{w|electric charge}} in antimatter: {{w|positron}}s, the antimatter counterpart of {{w|electron}}s have positive, i.e. reversed, charge, but there exist positive and negative matter, and positive and negative antimatter at the same time.

The use of the phrase 'physics tells us...' may be alluding to the way people use 'physics' or 'science' to justify nonsense. See [[1240: Quantum Mechanics]] and [[1475: Technically]].

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