![[1132] Yuna’s New Friend](/comics/2019-11-28-1132-yunas-new-friend.png "[1132] Yuna’s New Friend")
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- Matthew: Hey, your wheel isn’t connected to the grid! Why doesn’t it stop spinning?
- Yuna: It’s a perpetual motion machine.
- Matthew: Really? That’s awesome!
- Yuna: You think so?
- Matthew: Sure! That’s, like, almost as cool as a black hole!
- Yuna: You like black holes?!!
- Matthew: Sure! Black holes are the coolest thing God has ever created!
- Yuna: Mommy! Mommy! I need to show Wally to my new friend Matthew!
- Matthew: Wally?
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Was Matthew the one with the American flag? I hope he just did that to impress the jury, but maybe it is his upbringing, judging by his mention of God in this strip as well. That could cause some friction. 😀
Patrick Ohm wrote:
Not to mention his name.
I fear for his life.
I’m kinda concerned for Matthew. I feel as if one of many bad things might happen to him soon.
This is cute for now though.
Yes, he very much looks like the boy with the American flag. We remember Landon’s mother, and we might have a parallel case… But at least Matthew believes in black holes. 🙂 And Yuna has grown a bit since we first saw her, so a sweet crush would be a next natural step…
@ Marteri:
I am assuming the crush you are talking about is not the crushing gravity of a 5cm Schwarzschild radius black hole in a box. I wonder if it has evaporated due to Hawking radiation yet.
Oh Matthew . . . you’re doomed, but you’ll have too much fun to care. Or is that terror? No no, it’s definitely fun . . .
No, Yuna, remember your spaghettified tools…
@ Patrick Ohm:
Why friction? He can be religious and still understand science.
Matthew was tagged two strips ago, so this looks to be flag boy.
We can hope for a blossoming friendship, but as with all pets, you never know if Wally is going to “behave”.
Showing him a black hole sure … what could go wrong anyway?
It’s not like it would suck him up or something, right?
No, perfectly safe.
Hey Novil?
A little off-topic, but it Yuna would like some added oomph to her perpetual motion machine, she should check out the research that has been conducted regarding temperatures below absolute zero . They are created by first cooling atoms into the nanokelvin range, then arranging their polarities using precisely-tuned laser bursts to create a lattice of negative pressure.
This results in some physical effects that Yuna would be VERY interested in, such as negative entropy (not negative delta-entropy, but actual, honest-to-Seeoatlamakaskay negative entropy), as well as carnot-style combustion engines that work at over-100% efficiency, i.e. perpetual motion.
Also, has Yuna heard of the hypothetical black-hole drive, which would use a quantum-gravity parabolic reflector to accelerate via Hawking Radiation?
Great comic!
HackneyedTrope
Poor Boy. He’s gonna die right?
They seem to hit it off already.
If they become good friends, we could have two Yunas.
Imagine what they could do together.
Sumguy wrote:
Maybe I’m expecting a bit too much of kids that age … but a bunch of blinking LEDs isn’t science.
It’s more about engineering than about discovering new things.
Wiring up all those LEDs sure took him quite a while and finding out how to make them blink that way would have required some work too, but the result is not about anything science related, just a religious message in a patriotic context.
Oh, c’mon guys, don’t be so negative! A friend for Yuna at last, and maybe a boyfriend – that’s so nice! 🙂
Sumguy wrote:
Tell that to Galileo ^^
Has Yuna a friend? is it a sign of the end of the times?
And seeing the fast they grow (not only in scientic) how long we must wait to see Cloud green of envy?
theist + god like mad scientist that bends the ever living shit out of the laws of physics…. well this is going to end well… at least she is more cute and more chearfull then Rick Sanchez
@ Sumguy:
Hmmm not in a really really meaningful way…
At a certain point the common religions [In this case Christianity] can’t work with science. The mindset for scientific investigation is one of questioning and checking for evidence everywhere and the various religion falls quite flat on that… Additionally by the fundamentals of the religion in question is a really big can of worm addressing the argument of conversion, as IF you truly believe you MUST try and convert those you care for, as otherwise means condemning them to an eternity of suffering, but on the other hand being that pushy is going to annoy the hell out of them…
Maybe the real treasure was the friends she made along the way?
Ratfox wrote:
Or Copernicus. Incidentally, the charge against Galileo was led by his scientific peers as his math didn’t actually support his claims. The Church supported him a bit longer until he alienated his patrons there (mainly by being a sarcastic jerk towards anyone his disagreed with).
At a certain point, scientists can become as inflexible and unquestioning as religious hardliners. The only real difference is that instead of being seen as hellbound, “agnostics” just get dismissed as crackpots.
Nobody tell her that it still fails as a perpetual motion machine, because when the charge in the ores dissipates, with no outside grid to replenish it, it will cease. It only looks endless in her limited viewpoint of the device.
Well, he may not be a full blown scientist, but he’s pretty damn good at engineering for his age, and is at least reasonably interested in science. Moreover, he is good at presenting things in a way that pleases bigoted over-patriotic teachers/adults. He could help Yuna with popularizing her research.
Do not compare him with Yuna, she is a caricature, well out of the world.
@ David Nuttall:
Read Larry Niven’s short story “The Hole Man”.
Am I the only one hoping that Cloud will soon be teasing her about Matthew like she used to tease him about Sandra?
@ Ratfox:
Yeah and Galileo was himself a Christian and stayed one till the day he died.
Science and religion are only in conflict for those who lack a good understanding of either. Fundamentalists aren’t the only kind of theist around, after all.
@ AnotherBear:
It depends on which religion. For instance, you either believe the bible is absolute truth from god, or you believe most of the stars are much MUCH older than the Earth. But you cannot believe both. Now if you look at “religion” in a broader sense, then sure, you can have a faith that does not contradict objective reality. The flying spaghetti monster is a perfect example of one such.
@ Hurocrat:
Actually, Copernicus worked for the catholic church, the church actually accepted his heliocentric view of the universe while he was alive
It wasn’t until Galileo’s time that they started taking an anti-science stance on things, and this was probably done in an attempt to steal congregants away from the protestants
@ Sumguy:
He looks like a decent boy, but his parents do not strike me as the most open-minded people if they encourage their son to do a science display like this. Or he/his parents knew exactly how to impress the judges, as I mentioned.
I am currently writing an essay on the role of science in Islam, so far be it from me to deny the compatibility of science and religion.
Awww, I see a long-lasting friendship blooming. I can see them meeting up after school to feed Wally and watch the latest Ted-ED and Kurzgesagt videos.
@ SlugFiller:
Well; Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Jainism are religion yet lack deities…yet they are still religion, albeit focused on philosophical teachings. Maybe Hindusim if you know about “Universe as massive engine and gods are mostly manifestations of it”.
To be fair, Eastern religions might fit with science better.
I ship it.
Well, the boy is right, with a temperature as low as 10^-14 k, sure the black holes are the coolest thing *** has created in the Universe! (***: change with preferred deity/physical event)
So Yuna wants to show Matthew her…
No. Even I have SOME self respect. 😉
@ Bahamuttone:
There may be a point where Christianity cannot work with science, but it is relatively far away from primary school. If you believe in theistic evolution, interpret Genesis as a literary mythical retelling of the creation and accept some form of historical-critical exegesis, Christianity fits quite well alongside science. In fact, I’ve worked as a scientist, and many times in my work, I needed to stop for a moment to stand astonished at witnessing the Creation’s marvels. (And I worked with computer simulations.) If your basic premise is “God has created the universe, laws of physics and logic and is omnipotent over all natural logic, any natural thing you come up with is a God’s marvel, and your own work a way of worship. I’ve known a number of good scientists who are very devout Christians and don’t have any problems in contradicting their faith by their research.
The same goes with evangelizing. If you think strategically, you will not be preaching. That is not your job. If it were, you would have been called to priesthood. Instead, as a layman, you will do your best when you preach with your life and works. Sooner or later, your faith comes up naturally, and if you lead a life worthy of a name of Christian, live humbly and talk about your faith when (and only when) asked, some will be drawn to the God by your example.
Naturally, my own position is a bit extreme. I believe God to be omnipotent over logic: “God can create a stone so heavy He cannot lift it, and then lift it.” That is not required to be a scientist and a practising Christian. It’s my own peculiarity, may God forgive me if I am wrong.
@ Lurker 2:
I can only say: Preach it, friend. Preach it. Can I get an Amen for this? 😀
For me the problem in Christianity has never been that science. As you said, there are parallel you can take from the mythos, unless you’re reading it literally, which you kinda shouldn’t.
For me it has been the idea of God spending time for millions of years and only 2k years ago deciding to pop in and say “Hi”.
But in logical sense the vast spectrum of religions could easilly have been just humans trying to understand something as vast as God, who probably wasn’t bound to our seven days mind you. God could have a bit bigger rotations in mind than our planets roundabout our sun…
So basically, Christianity is good idea, not the only idea and maybe not the one that gets most of it right. But there’s a lot of decent things to pick up and since I don’t pretend to know how unoverse began any better than the next guy, I’m quite happy believing in big bearded fella who might or might not have a beard, be fella or be at all to begin with.
@ Nik:
Worse. He’ll become Yuna’s best friend her age.
Hope the world’s ready for Two of them now. *Cackles maniacally.
This might go in a direction where things get cute, right?
I have a feeling that some of Yuna’s words will come back to haunt her:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/05/27/1086-youre-a-blockhead-cloudy-brown/
A myth is a story that explains. The predominant Creation Myth in Western Civilization begins, “In the Beginning God Created . . .” Today we paraphrase it “In the Beginning was nothing which exploded.” (Apologies to Terry Pratchett). Who is to say they are not the same story?
Matthew is a bible name he,s 1 of the chosen 12 of Jesus.
@ Patrick Ohm:
It hopefully causes fun friction and not “how dare you be religious/not religious!?” friction. Matthew is showing the right attitude for portraying a Christian who is into science and technology; most Western scientists in the last 2000 years were Christian priests studying God’s Creation in an effort to better grasp His plans. How He thinks. To better appreciate His works.
A kid who is into science and a faithful Christian would see no contradiction in God being the One who designed all of this, and in seeking to understand just how He did it.
@ Patrick Ohm:
Given your wording, I’d guess your essay shows Islam to have a positive relationship with science.
This kinda reads like “Christians are unscientific infidels.”
Isn’t he neighboring flag-LED-morse-code-jesus-be-praised kid?