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[[People are lined up to see a movie.]]
Premiering Tonight:
String Theory:
An expose
Presented In
3D!
[[The people are in a dark theater, fiddling with their glasses.]]
<<???>>
[[The people approach black hat guy, who's sitting at a desk.]]
Person #1: Your movie was a ripoff.
Person #2: It wasn't 3D at all!
Black hat guy: Was too.
Black hat guy: It's just that the third dimension is tightly rolled up and too small to observe at normal energies.
{{Title text: The LINACs in the glasses frames can barely manage one MeV. You should've gone to the screening at CERN.}}
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