Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 21, 2023

The scientists will want their cut, Calvin.

Dark matter isn’t really dull if it’s also the name of a boss in the Kirby series.

Sciencey jobs

The quick quark quietly quacked.

Here’s a free one for you, Hobbes. Instead of Quark Quark Quark Quark Quark . . .

We’ll name it PentaQuark!

Remember “Smock smock smock”?

“Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Sure he has not got much of a bark

And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark."

What about dark energy?

I think the business plan has gone into a black hole……..

Hobbes is trying to summon some Ferengi?

Today’s strip reminds me of something that I learned recently. Einstein did not like the term Theory of Relativity. He preferred the term Invariance Theorem. Calvin would consider both terms to be dull.

Calvin does compare himself to Einstein. He once told Susie, “Remember what bad grades Einstein got? Well, mine are even worse!” As some readers pointed out, it’s a myth that Einstein got bad grades. He was considered a slow pupil though. Miss Wormwood, of course, realises that Calvin is a very intelligent and imaginative boy who could do much better than he actually does.

Don’t forget medical disease named after the person who “discovered” it. Gets confusing and it’s not helpful.

Imagine a dark quark.

Just make sure that the people over at NBC don’t hear you, Hobbes…https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Hobbes, tell Calvin to go quark himself!!!

I guess he means, Up Quark, Down Quark, Strange Quark, Top Quark or Bottom Quark, and Charm Quark. Quarks are among the smallest particles in the Universe.

And I like to say smock. Smock smock smock…lol

Everyday, the Pharmaceutical “scientists” come up with the dumbest names …..

It’s called dark matter because, “We don’t know what it is.” was already taken.

Hobbes sounds like a quantum duck…

Hobbes also likes the word “Smock”

Yesterday, I displayed my dreadful ignorance of Mr. Watterson and his work. I apologize.

I was unaware, he’d given up all drawing.

For those who are curious, I offer this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson

Has Hobbes been watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine?

I think quark is a pretty cool name. You probably could improve on dark matter though, Calvin.

What a quarky cartoon this morn.

The term “Big Bang” to describe the beginning of the universe was a derogatory name coined by Fred Hoyle who thought the idea was preposterous. He kept pushing his idea of “steady state” until the day he died.

I’m here, and I would love a better name for ignorance than “dark matter”.

I didn’t know dark matter was proposed that early, the strip is 1993. Thought it was more recent.

Generally speaking, quarks are a nuisance..

One of these days Calvin, you’ll learn the value of understatement.

Quark IS fun to say. It’s also fun to eat! Yum. Too bad you can’t find it in the US.

IF I don’t care – it is a “dark matter” and ‘science’ should appreciate that. js ( ˘︹˘ )

Dark Matter is bunk. Scientists are using Newtonian equations for gravity and, when the universe doesn’t fit their equations, they make up something ridiculous like Dark Matter because there is no way their equations could be wrong. Arrogance. They need to accept that gravity doesn’t fit Newtonian physics on the scale of the multiple galaxies the same way Newtonian physics doesn’t fit the very small on the scale of atoms, thus quantum physics.

If Calvin needs some scientists, he could check Radio Shack. They all hang out there.

Quark, quark, quark…too funny. Gotta love Hobbes.

Heard a lecture by Murray Gell-Mann when I was at Claremont (before the crazies took over!)

In the ‘70s heard a lecture by Murray Gell-Mann when I was at Claremont (before the crazies took over!)

I like to say rutabaga. Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga.

Where I come from, we call it “The Force.”

Hobbes is the greatest scientist!

People often underestimate the scientific sense of humor. F’rinstance after Rutherford determined that the atom was mostly empty space, physicist defined a “barn” as approximately the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus.

One of Calvin’s funnier get-rich-quick schemes! And the last panel, that’s like my dad and the word “banana!”

The prime target for your genius is the pharmaceutical market.

The names they give those drugs . . . anything would be an improvement!

And the consultants that come up with those stinkers get paid a whole lotta $$$$$$ – far more than your paltry $1!!!

The Swedish Chef would have fun with that word “quark”… Oh… Robot Chicken beat me to it. Okay, well how about, “Spam, spam, spam, spam…”

“Three quarks for Muster Mark!” — James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake

“Nomenclature” is a specialty field and most new names are very carefully considered, especially in botany and zoology, where there are many, many species. However, if you discover a new fundamental particle or property of matter – you can name it pretty much whatever you please. (Try not to use something already taken like “charm” or “color”, if you can.)

For years now business and product names appear to be the output of a randomizer. Prescription drug names are a good example. HP named its consulting services company Agilent. Frederik Pohl predicted this in the early ’60s in a story about AI run businesses that ran without human intervention. The product names became a bit odd. Consider Kleen Krack Boilerator. People were forced to consume in order to keep the economy going. The rich got to live modestly and have consumption free liesure.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson makes it clear that he’s proud that astrophysicists regard simplicity and clarity ( Big Bang, black hole, dark energy, etc.) as more important than creating jargon only those in the know will understand which many other scientific disciplines excel at.

How about “Ursus horribilis”, Iguana iguana", and “big bang”?

I think quark is pretty sexy as names go. And there’s the charmed quark. Charmed, I’m sure.

“Quark” the name of a space comedy tv series from the 1970’s.

Quark, Quark, Quark.