Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 26, 2012

I hope I will learn playing the organ in this way, go to future and bring it back to present!

This kid and boxes are a dangerous combination.

Oh, good question!

Calvin is probably going to end up at the next day, where the teacher is yelling at him for not completing his assignment.

seems a bit back and forward for a while

Good question, Hobbes.

There once was a lady named Bright,Who could travel much faster than light.She took off one day in an Einsteinian wayAnd arrived the preceding night.

I don’t need to travel through time to know that this outcome is not possible.

“Say kids, what time is it?”

In the last panel, Hobbes looks like he’s trying really hard to think inside the box.

Very, VERY good! I like the way you think.

Maybe he could write a story about a kid who goes into the future with his pet tiger and………

LOL, wait’ll you get an A+ for a story where you AREN’t in favourable light (spoiler).

“Relax, we’ll be back as soon as we go…” Brilliant!

Einstein is spinning in his grave about now!

The thing is that if time travel really was possible, this idea would actually work. The homework would be an ontological paradox. Nobody ever wrote it. He would just get it from the future and later give it to himself.

I think this is called a closed loop – like trying to get power from an extension cord plugged into itself or trying to step in a bucket and pick it up from within.

Obviously not everyone has seen this arc before. Just you wait, 3/4 of you will be very surprised.

“Relax. We’ll be back as soon as we go.” This is how my older brother got me on my first roller coaster ride of terror. Earned him a kick in the kneecaps. Great fun!

Cartoon Physics (“Only When It’s Funny”).

I think I remember this series… We can only guess the loophole in his argument.

@Gigantor: So, if Calvin in the future gave the assignment to Calvin in the time machine from the past, it seems like Calvin in the future wouldn’t have the piece of paper to turn in at school the next day. Perhaps he would need to make a photocopy before handing the original to Calvin in the time machine.

The most fun I ever had was flying from Europe to NYC on the day of the summer timechange, which happens on a different date on each side of the Atlantic. Sometimes it’s a week apart, sometimes two. Anyway…I got to NYC an hour before I left on the same day.

Well, he did think of it outside the box.

he’s too young to be doing homework

That’s really not possible: Calvin hasn’t done that homework, has no intention of doing it – how could he possibly bring it back from the future if it never existed anyway? Maybe he hopes to bring back another student’s work? And pass it off as his?

Classic and Cute!

I love Calvin and Hobbes!

xxx

The real Hobbes is right sitting in the box does look weird.

Hobbes actually looks irritated in this strip.

+++++

And Calvin should write about going into the future to pick up his story. . . .

But if you left before, would you be here now?

If he would just write down what he is doing the story would write itself

@Night-Gaunt9: And now it’s been 20 years since all of this began, and Calvin still hasn’t written the story.

My time machine was our garage. Me and my space dog travelled to many different planets and killed all the bad life forms, usually dandelions on the lawn, with my space stick.

This is my favorite arc of C&H!

There are reputable scientists who say that time travel will happen some day, that it’s just a matter of time (yuk, yuk).

How can a boy with the imagination Calvin has be having such a difficult time writing a story for class??? His head should be SO full of ideas that the hard part would be . . . choosing which one he wants to write about! ;-)

The Time Machine arc has to be the best!