#3178: Hyperacute Interdynamics
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[Miss Lenhart is teaching a classroom holding a finger up in front of the class. Two students can be seen sitting at desks in front of her, a Cueball like boy is on the first row and Jill, taking notes, is in the second row.]
Miss Lenhart: Modern physics rests on three main pillars:
General relativity, which describes very massive objects,
[Close up of Miss Lenhart.]
Miss Lenhart: Quantum Mechanics, which describes very small objects,
[In a frame-less panel the view zooms back out, but shows only Miss Lenhart.]
Miss Lenhart: and Hyperacute Interdynamics, which describes objects 10-30cm in size and 200-700g in mass.
[The panel zooms back in to a close up of Miss Lenhart.]
Student (off-panel): That last one seems kind of limited.
Miss Lenhart: Yeah, but over it's domain it's really precise. Absolutely nails squirrels and grapefruit.
Miss Lenhart: Someday we hope to unify it with the other two.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.