#3154: Physics Insight

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is talking to White Hat, arms outstretched.]

Cueball: Sure, when Einstein suggests using the Lorentz transform to explain the connection between velocity and time, people call him a genius.

Cueball: But when I suggest it, it's "basic physics" and "undergraduate stuff."

White Hat: Such a double standard!


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they put him in the history books. But when I do it, I get 'detained by security' for 'injuring several tourists.'

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