Q. What do undead string theorists absolutely crave?
A. ….
Q. No, I’m serious!
A. ….
This may be an indication of how far string theory has seeped out into the general meme pool. I mean, I don’t think a webcomic — even one of general geek interest — has made a joke about gerbes lost forever like tears in rain.
In our geeky household, that joke has been around for a few years, along with variants about vegetarian zombies craving grains, and constipated ones craving brans.
And I thought they craved testable hypotheses.
The live ones do, but we’re talking about the undead — i.e., those who’ve been Department Chair for too long. . . .
We really need a parody of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” right about now.