quantum-gravity

A single-panel SMBC comic. A top caption reads: "The main appeal of funding a quantum gravity research center was getting to name it." The scene shows a multi-story research building at the end of a paved walkway, set among green hills under a blue sky. A sign planted in the foreground reads: "The Advanced Center for Determining Why Australians Don't Fall Off" — a joke playing on the naive idea that people on the bottom of the globe should fall away. The votey (bonus panel) is a hand-drawn diagram of a sphere with a vertical axis: an arrow labeled "gravity" points to the top of the sphere (marked with a plus) and an arrow labeled "anti-gravity" points to the bottom (marked with a minus), mock-illustrating the idea that the bottom of the planet needs anti-gravity to keep people from falling off.