Saturday, November 13, 2010

Randall Munroe

Recently, a great nerd figure, along with his family, has fallen ill due to some unknown ailment. In response to these misfortunes me and one of my good friends has decided to send Randall Munroe, the aforementioned victim, a get well card. Our current idea is to have a comic attached to it that has been drawn in his own style (for those of you who don't know, Randall Munroe writes the web-comic xkcd).
If you can't quite read what it says, here is the script:
A: I'm having some trouble, I just don't understand why more bonds in a covalent bond corresponds to a shorter bond length.
B: Well, you see, bonds can be thought of as rubber bands. The more you have the closer whatever they're holding together becomes.
A: Ok, but that doesn't explain why they actually get closer, there aren't quantum rubber bands holding all this stuff together.
B: Clearly you've never heard of string theory.

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