3242: Heisenbark Double Uncertainty Principle

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Heisenbark Double Uncertainty Principle
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Made by: Nyperold


Explanation[edit | edit source]

The title is a pun between "bark", a vocalization type that dogs make, and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This is a principle in quantum mechanics that states that certain pairs of physical properties of a particle are inversely limited in the degrees of precision to which they can be measured. The first example given is position and momentum: the more precisely one is known, the less precisely the other is known.

Jokes often take this to the size of objects, such as the joke about Heisenberg being stopped for speeding ("Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am!"). Here, it's taken to the size of Odie, but since Garfield surmises that Odie knows neither his postion nor his momentum, the uncertainty is double.

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Original strip: 1984-04-04.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Garfield: I suspect Odie of kidnapping Pooky. Watch him crumble under my keen questioning
Garfield {pointing at Odie}: Where were you on the evening of April 1?!
Garfield: What am I doing? Odie doesn't even know where he is now
Garfield: Or how fast he's going, for that matter