# Can those brilliant professor types really look at those long ass equations on the whiteboard?

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[A physicist’s anxiety nightmare.](http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/04/physics-classroom-blackboard.html)

From a dream-sequence in Coen Bros. 2009, **A Serious Man**. The only movie where Schroedinger’s Cat is knowledgeably introduced into a meditation on a man’s Job-like moral and existential quandaries. Really.

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