Good morning, Jorge. Have you left the house yet today?

I have, yeah. I record in my garage. I have a setup there. So, thankfully, I'm out of

the house. But if you mean, like, leaving the premises of my house, no, I haven't done

that yet. I mean, it's not even noon. Who leaves the house before noon?

I guess most of humanity have that experience.

Are you saying I'm not part of humanity? I'm just saying maybe you have more inertia than

the rest of us. Yes, hey, cartoonists, address, tends to stay in rest unless an external deadline

is applied to it. Yeah, I think that's Newton's forgotten fourth law of cartooning physics.

For God knows, he never got to it because he had too much inertia.

He never managed to change out of his pajamas.

Hi, I'm Jorge. I'm a cartoonist and creator of PhD comics.

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist and a professor at UC Irvine.

And I have my own kind of inertia.

Oh, yeah, is it mostly around your waist or do you have a very inertial head?

It's sort of more conceptual inertia. Once I have an idea, I don't like to let go of it.

So the idea has inertia, though. Is that what you mean?

Is it a heavy idea or a light idea?

It sort of stubbornly sticks around in my brain.

Sometimes I get curious about something and it just will not leave me for months or years

until eventually I find an answer. Aren't you describing all physicists, though?

Is inertia in a sense a amount of compulsion? You need to be a researcher or scientist.

I think there is in fact a minimum quantum level of obsession you have to have in order to dedicate

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