Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 10, 2024

No, I flunked math…..

Calvin wouldn’t explain it even if he got better at math.

He did get a D in math, Hobbes; that’s why he can’t explain it.

Wasn’t that the plot of one of the Shrek movies?

Ⅰ thought Hobbes did all of Calvin’s homework

That doesn’t make it have any less math, Hobbes.

I’m looking forward to seeing the dinos, Bill has always done a GREAT job drawing them.

That’s because multidimensional Calvinmath (derivated from non-euclidian Einsteinmath), which is necessary for timespatial travel is totally different from classic Euclidian math taught in school. In short, his math teacher can’t understand Calvin’s genius :D

In answer to Hobbes’s question, it is believed that, when we eventually have the technology to travel near the speed of light, we will be ageing more slowly than we do normally so we will age less than the people on Earth. That is the Theory of Relativity and why time travel is theoretically possible. We will be travelling through time in the sense of travelling into the future more quickly than others and aging less than them.

Sagan…

Tyson…

Calvin!

Yes, but that was conventional math. Calvin is way beyond that type of math.

A D is better than an F.

Hobbes, I think such questions should be asked BEFORE you’re in the midst of traveling back in time…just in case Calvin’s math calculations have an error in them and you’re right!

It’s a lot of math for Calvin to count his fingers. He loses track when he has to change his pointing finger as he gets to ‘6’.

It’s not Applied Mathematics, so it doesn’t apply

Hobbes brings up a good point. How does time travel not alter your age?

Ehhh…wibbly, wobbly…

You forgot to carry the 1

At least he passed. Way to go, Calvin! Dilly! Dilly!!

The real question is how do you stay connected to the planet when it’s circling the sun, which is circling the galactic center, which is moving towards the Great Attractor?

Does your Math explain why it’s “Calvin, Calvin, Calvin, Hobbes, Hobbes, Hobbes”, rather than “Calvin, Hobbes, Calvin, Hobbes, Calvin, Hobbes” in Panel 4? ☺

So early cretaceous, and not Jurassic

Anticipation reigns.

To travel to time you must be outside of it, no aging takes place during transit.

Calvin’s math classes never made any mention of time travel.

Calvin didn’t get a D in math. I blame the noodles.

It’s OK Hobbes—he means “matheMAGICs”, not “matheMATICs”…

It is a conundrum.

Calvin is great at HIS version of math, just like Einstein

Zero to left, that’s why!

Somebody slept through Temporal Mechanics 101

“Not in time travel math.”

I don’t think there were any “snacks” 140 million years ago.

Didn’t you read Temporal Mechanics 101?

For the same reason you don’t stop traveling once you go past the moment the time machine was built – when traveling through time, you and the time machine exist out of normal temporal space – in a sort of temporal bubble that keeps time moving at the same rate as you are used to.

It’s the same for FTL travel – you bring a piece of our universe into subspace or warpspace or whatever universe you slipped into in order to escape the laws of physics in our universe.

Otherwise, being in a universe with different laws of physics would probably be deadly to our types of life, nor would our technology work there.

Don’t ask silly questions Hobbes

John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. Born: July 10, 1509… birthday greetings!

That’s what the flux capacitor is for.

Don’t listen to a kid who got a D in math.

Bruce Banner would have a field day with this kid’s time travel theory.