3155: Physics Paths - Revision history

2.98.65.8: /* Explanation */

2025-11-21T00:09:01Z

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50.240.213.21: /* Explanation */

2025-11-20T23:40:14Z

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82.132.244.234: /* Explanation */ Slightly less stilted wording for the same thing, I think. ("...fallen into the belief in..." might have worked, also)

2025-10-24T14:02:23Z

‎Explanation: Slightly less stilted wording for the same thing, I think. ("...fallen into the belief in..." might have worked, also)

136.226.64.119: /* Explanation */

2025-10-23T20:57:13Z

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136.226.64.119: /* Explanation */

2025-10-23T20:56:55Z

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82.132.244.153: /* Explanation */ I assume an attempt to use "he might of" (wrong! "might've" isn't an abbreviation of that!) only half corrected to "he might have".

2025-10-22T21:47:48Z

‎Explanation: I assume an attempt to use "he might of" (wrong! "might've" isn't an abbreviation of that!) only half corrected to "he might have".

Mathmaster: /* Explanation */

2025-10-22T14:31:15Z

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Mathmaster at 22:29, 20 October 2025

2025-10-20T22:29:36Z

Mathmaster at 17:36, 19 October 2025

2025-10-19T17:36:29Z

Mathmaster at 17:32, 19 October 2025

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 [[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.
-The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has succumbed to certain conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. Point is, the idea that "the establishment" is suppressing his theories is almost certainly untrue &mdash; far more likely is that Cueball's theory is simply wrong, and therefore useless.
+The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has succumbed to certain conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. The point is that the idea that "the establishment" is suppressing his theories is almost certainly untrue &mdash; far more likely is that Cueball's theory is simply wrong, and therefore useless.
 The title text mentions {{w|syllogisms}}, logical deductions from two propositions. An example of a syllogism is "All scientists that overturn physics are valuable. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, Einstein was a person of value." Since Cueball, invalidly, gets it the other way around ("Einstein was a person of value. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, all people with value overturn physics."), one could say he quite literally overturned the syllogism by inverting the logical path.

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 [[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.
-The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has succumbed to certain conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
+The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has succumbed to certain conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. Point is, the idea that "the establishment" is suppressing his theories is almost certainly untrue &mdash; far more likely is that Cueball's theory is simply wrong, and therefore useless.
 The title text mentions {{w|syllogisms}}, logical deductions from two propositions. An example of a syllogism is "All scientists that overturn physics are valuable. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, Einstein was a person of value." Since Cueball, invalidly, gets it the other way around ("Einstein was a person of value. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, all people with value overturn physics."), one could say he quite literally overturned the syllogism by inverting the logical path.

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 [[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.
-The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has fallen to belief in conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
+The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has succumbed to certain conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
 The title text mentions {{w|syllogisms}}, logical deductions from two propositions. An example of a syllogism is "All scientists that overturn physics are valuable. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, Einstein was a person of value." Since Cueball, invalidly, gets it the other way around ("Einstein was a person of value. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, all people with value overturn physics."), one could say he quite literally overturned the syllogism by inverting the logical path.

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 [[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.
-The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash in other words, Cueball has fallen to belief in conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
+The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash; in other words, Cueball has fallen to belief in conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
 The title text mentions {{w|syllogisms}}, logical deductions from two propositions. An example of a syllogism is "All scientists that overturn physics are valuable. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, Einstein was a person of value." Since Cueball, invalidly, gets it the other way around ("Einstein was a person of value. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, all people with value overturn physics."), one could say he quite literally overturned the syllogism by inverting the logical path.

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 [[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.
-The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
+The first path (the "healthy path") has Cueball muse that perhaps this was a poorly-thought-out test of his value. The healthy path establishes that Cueball doesn't need a physics-overturning insight to have value. On the other hand, the "path of ruin" has Cueball angrily yell that the establishment must be stopping his insight from overturning physics. The path of ruin has Cueball take the idea that to have value, you must have a critical insight as constant. Thus, since he has value, he must have an insight that overturns physics, and thus the establishment must be suppressing it &mdash in other words, Cueball has fallen to belief in conspiracy theories. This is similar to [[2113: Physics Suppression]]. However, this is probably not true, because he might have thought of a very interesting theory that is wrong, which in that case it is useless.
 The title text mentions {{w|syllogisms}}, logical deductions from two propositions. An example of a syllogism is "All scientists that overturn physics are valuable. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, Einstein was a person of value." Since Cueball, invalidly, gets it the other way around ("Einstein was a person of value. Einstein overturned physics. Therefore, all people with value overturn physics."), one could say he quite literally overturned the syllogism by inverting the logical path.

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	[[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w\|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.		[[Cueball]] wishes to prove his value as a person. To do this, he turns to {{w\|Albert Einstein}} as a role model, and attempts to replicate his success by making a revolutionary scientific discovery. After an indeterminate amount of time passes, Cueball laments that he has failed. At this point, the comic diverges into two timelines: one in which Cueball takes a healthy outlook on his failure, and one in which he falls into a self-destructive mode of thinking.

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 ==Transcript==
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+:[Panel 1, Cueball has one hand out, below his shoulder, palm facing up and is straight:]
 :Cueball: Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value.
-:[Panel 2, Cueball has one hand on his chin]
+:[Panel 2, Cueball has one hand on his chin:]
 :Cueball: I hope '''''I''''' have value. I'll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check.
-:[arrow pointing down with the caption below in between]
+:[arrow pointing down with the caption below in between:]
 :Time passes
-:[arrow pointing down to Panel 3, which has Cueball with both of his hands out and up]
+:[arrow pointing down to Panel 3, which has Cueball with both of his hands out and up:]
 :Cueball: On no! My insight didn't overturn physics! But I don't think I'm worthless...