Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 4w ago

This is why it's important to get good grades in math class.

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Being able to just declare math formulas to act on the physical world is an intriguing super power.
- How would you even world build that in? Become a prominent mathematician and figure out all the uses?
  
  X is the objects mass and Y is how fast it is going, now there is a black hole next to your face.
  
  Charles Stross The Laundry Files - It's a good read
- He's a mathemagician
  
  Pretty sure there's a Final Fantasy Tactics class that is exactly that
- Katalepsis does exactly this for millions of words, and it’s (unfortunately) one of the best books I’ve read in my life.
Don't accidentally use the equation that opens a 4th dimensional path through the floor though.
- I've been reassured by that one Star Trek episode where Riker and Ro are out of phase with the rest of the ship that you can never pass through floors, only walls.
  
  I remember a certain episode of batman beyond as a kid giving me a strange fear of "using powers to phase through walls and ending up accidentally falling through the ground". On second thought though, thats the least of your concerns; you wont actually hit the ground or anything and more importantly you'll phase through the air molecules as well instead of breathing them
  
  Geordie you philistine.
  
  Um ackshully it's Geordi and Ro.
  
  Gravity plating in the floors! Their phased baryons were able to pass through normal matter, but not through the graviton fields running through all the floors of the decks.
  
  Now don't ask how they were able to breathe, because I've got nothing on that.
Pfff...4th dimension. 4th wall is the real super power.
- Amateur hour.
  
  What's that? A comic book character breaking the fourth wall to torture Frank Castle with bees? A large influx of bees ought to put a stop to that!
  
  Unbeelievable.
Adding time and distance? Nonsense! Do your unit analysis, people!
- It is probably in natural units where c=1. Then you see that all the time. Just do t -> ct and you are grand.
  
  That accounts for the proper units! We did it all the time in my relativity courses, but we had to be explicit
- That's why he can phase through walls and you can not.
It's not as easy to sing along to as the quadratic equation...
Why does the back of his head look like a cock?
- I don't know, but it made him very popular with some of the other inmates.
Now I need to know what that formula actually is.
- It's 0, since ∂t/∂x = 0.
Oh look, it’s Heather Morell, running off and doing shit without telling anyone.
Now we know what comics Charles Stross read as a kid

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