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3178. Hyperacute Interdynamics

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.

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4 panel comic.

1. Two people at student desks while one person lectures. The lecturer says "Modern physics rests on three pillars. General relativity, which describes very massive objects,"

2. Zoom to just the lecturer who continues "quantum mechanics, which describes very small objects,"

3. Lecturer continues "And hyperactue interdynamics, which describes objects 10 - 30 centimeters in size and 200 - 700 grams in mass."

4. Comment from off panel student "The last one seems kind of limited."
Lecturer replies "Yeah, but over its domain it's *really* precise. Absolutely nails squirrels and grapefruit. Someday we hope to unify it with the other two."