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# "Where the Blue Begins" - Judge Magazine Comic This is a humorous fictional dialogue among fictional professors (de Sitter, Windmill, Dyke, Brinker) debating cosmological concepts—specifically the nature of time and space at the universe's boundaries. The satire targets academic pretension and abstract philosophy. The professors engage in increasingly absurd logical loops, discussing whether time exists beyond the universe's edge, whether a cinder could travel faster than time, and whether a watch matters without time. Their circular reasoning spirals into nonsense. The accompanying cartoons illustrate the comedic contrast: the top shows an impatient woman waiting for a melon to ripen (mundane reality), while the bottom depicts a theatrical performance—suggesting the professors' debate is equally performative and removed from practical life. The joke: learned men tie themselves in philosophical knots over unanswerable cosmic questions while missing simple truths about everyday existence.
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JUDGE Where the Blue Begins By Jack Cluett Preoreson Wittterm pe Sitter, of the University of Leyden, Holland, looked up from a scratch pad and id to the m sof the National Academy of Sciences The radius of the universe is approximately 9,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 miles. Beyond this there is neither time nor space.” “You mean to say that it can’t ever be 10 minutes 10 w away t you get 9 maximilian miles, or whatever it is. ked Professor Windmill. r something just happened to get a couple of miles past 9, oh, oh, oh miles—then couldn't it be 10 minutes past 1 “If a cinder was that far away, nobody would care what time it was,” said Professor Dyke. Professor Brinker said: “I had a cinder in my eye once at 12 o'clock. I remember the time distinctly because | was looking into the whistle when it blew.” “An express train, traveling at the rate of.60 miles an hour for 50,000,000 rs, wouldn't even be near the boundaries of creation,” said Professor Windmill, Professor Dyke said: * would be some trip in an express tra Even when you got to the edge of creation you wouldn't know what time it was because there is no time. In fact, there’s no station.” “If you'd kept your watch wound, you could pull it out and look at the time,” said Professor Brinker. “But,” replied Professor de Sitter, “you wouldn't have “What are you waiting for, sir?” a watch. Without time there is no matter. vatch is “I'm waiting for this melon to get ripe.” matter. So without matter you have no watch. “See here, young man—I've stood for enough of this nonsense!” 10 comicbooks.com