The Crooks Fluctuation Theorem on Man Like Mobeen

The Crooks Fluctuation Theorem gets a surprise mention on Man Like Mobeen, a BBC comedy written by and starring Guz Khan as a well-meaning ex-drug dealer navigating life in Small Heath, Birmingham. Series 3 (2020).

 

 

Mobeen: What are you doing here?

Naz: It’s Shady. Come inside now.

Mobeen: Right, tell me. What is it with Shady?

Naz: He was…

Mobeen: What?

Naz: When I was a kid, he used to…

Mobeen: Used to what?

Naz: …be my physics tutor. To help me get into boarding school.

Mobeen: Yeah?

Naz: And every time I forgot Crooks’ fluctuation theorem…

Mobeen: What did he do?

Naz: He used to hit the tip…

Mobeen: The tip of your what?

Naz: …of my fingers. With a tiny hammer.

I would like to thank Prof. Suri Vaikuntanathan for bringing this important cultural artifact to my attention.