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| − | The comic shows {{w|customer review}}s from people who purchased a made-up {{w|sports drink}} multi-pack containing twelve 20 oz bottles. The people who gave 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 was born at the wrong end of time and has to live backwards. Benjamin Button was born with the physical appearance of an old man and grows younger as time progresses. In this comic, they apparently perceive time backwards: Merlin was thirsty then he drank the SmartQuench 9000, but he perceived it as drinking and then becoming thirsty. Benjamin Button was {{w|Dehydration|dehydrated}} then drank 3 bottles and got better, but perceived it the other way around.
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| | + | Positive and negative reviews are explained like matter and anti-matter. Physically anti-matter is matter going backwards in time. |
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| − | Particles of {{w|matter}} can have a positive or negative {{w|electric charge}}. Particles have associated {{w|antiparticle}}s with opposite charge. For example {{w|electron}}s are negatively charged particles and their antiparticles are {{w|positron}}s, which are positively charged. Antiparticles can be {{w|Feynman_diagram|interpreted}} as if they were the associated particle moving the opposite direction in time. Applying that interpretation to customer reviews gives the caption of the comic: positive reviews from people traveling backward in time are negative reviews (the "antiparticles" of positive reviews).
| + | In the title text, Randall gives an example of a positive review, which seems to actually be a negative review backwards in time. |
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| − | The caption says that negative reviews are only positive experiences, but backwards through life. However, Randall also gives an example in the title text of an ostensibly positive review which is actually about a negative experience by a person traveling backward in time (the person ate at a restaurant then got sick). The conclusion is that even the “normal” negative reviews are from backwards versions of positive events, despite the negative version being more common in our world. | + | The people giving negative reviews are Merlin (from the movie {{w|Memento (film)|Memento}}) and B. Button (from the movie {{w|The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_(film)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button}}). Both characters did not travel back in time, but Merlin remembered his future life instead of his past and Benjamin Button grew younger as time progressed. Merlin was mentioned earlier in [[270: Merlin]]. |
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| + | 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. |
| − | :[A picture with four small bottles and a larger one is shown. The text to the right reads:]
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| − | :SmartQuench 9000 | |
| − | :Sports Drink
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| − | :20 oz 12-pack
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| − | :[Below is a list with reviews; a picture for the user (avatar) and the name below, the rating (in stars) and the text to the right.]
| + | 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 charge in anti-matter: Positrons, the anti-matter of electrons have positive, i.e. reversed, charge, but there exist positive and negative matter, and positive and negative anti-matter at the same time. |
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| − | :Amy 2015 (4 of 5 stars) Perfect after a run
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| − | :Anon513 (5 of 5 stars) My favorite flavor
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| − | :Merlin (1 of 5 stars) Drinking this made me thirstier
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| − | :Mike63 (4 of 5 stars) Good price
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| − | :B Button (1 of 5 stars) Drank 3 bottles on a hot day and got dehydrated!
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| − | :[Caption below the frame:] | + | The usernames of the negative reviews, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King merlin] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_(short_story) bbutton], are those of well known fictional characters who experience time backwards. |
| − | :Physics tells us that negative reviews are really just positive reviews from people traveling backward in time.
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| − | ==Trivia== | + | ==Transcript== |
| − | *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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| − | *There are many examples of [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MerlinSickness "Merlin Sickness"] in fiction. Merlin was mentioned earlier in [[270: Merlin]].
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| − | *Time-reversed aging is also explored in [[560: Lithium Batteries]].
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