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Original: phd on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman addresses the reader.
Woman: Hey, gerbs! Our friends, Sirius Gala and Daniel Whiteson, have an awesome new physics/cosmology book coming out called "We Have No Idea." So we thought we'd do a crossover comic. Here's a guest episode, which you can see now by pressing the J key.
Panel 2 (votey/J-key strip begins): A man with frizzy hair speaks.
Man: But dark matter is... weird. We're probably swimming in it!
Panel 3:
Man: If you look at the center of our galaxy, there's a huge dark matter halo. It's much denser at the center, but it extends out in every direction.
Panel 4:
Man: If the earth weren't surrounded by dark matter, that would mean our neighborhood is the only place in the galaxy that lacks the most common stuff in the universe.
Panel 5:
Man: But what is this stuff? Nobody knows!
Woman: Is it real? Feels gravity. It doesn't feel electromagnetism, and it doesn't feel the weak or strong nuclear force.
Panel 6:
Man: Is it? Eh, I got a job. I could see this thing containing dark matter.
Woman: Umm... no... not really. I mean, the box doesn't "contain" it. The box is here, dark matter just passes through it.
Panel 7:
Woman: I suppose you could keep a track of dark matter?
Man: Did speaking in big fonts make you sound smart? Let's say it's a big used car!
Panel 8:
Woman: Wait!
Man: But why?
Panel 9: A decorated Christmas tree.
Man: What? You got it for Christmas already?
Woman: I'm gonna assume you told me you had mysteries?
Caption: To read more about their book, go to first one in to your library and ask any book go to physicsworld.com/wenoidea
Votey:
FAQ:
Q: Zach, how come your art is so good today?
A: Fuck you!
Woman: Hey, gerbs! Our friends, Sirius Gala and Daniel Whiteson, have an awesome new physics/cosmology book coming out called "We Have No Idea." So we thought we'd do a crossover comic. Here's a guest episode, which you can see now by pressing the J key.
Panel 2 (votey/J-key strip begins): A man with frizzy hair speaks.
Man: But dark matter is... weird. We're probably swimming in it!
Panel 3:
Man: If you look at the center of our galaxy, there's a huge dark matter halo. It's much denser at the center, but it extends out in every direction.
Panel 4:
Man: If the earth weren't surrounded by dark matter, that would mean our neighborhood is the only place in the galaxy that lacks the most common stuff in the universe.
Panel 5:
Man: But what is this stuff? Nobody knows!
Woman: Is it real? Feels gravity. It doesn't feel electromagnetism, and it doesn't feel the weak or strong nuclear force.
Panel 6:
Man: Is it? Eh, I got a job. I could see this thing containing dark matter.
Woman: Umm... no... not really. I mean, the box doesn't "contain" it. The box is here, dark matter just passes through it.
Panel 7:
Woman: I suppose you could keep a track of dark matter?
Man: Did speaking in big fonts make you sound smart? Let's say it's a big used car!
Panel 8:
Woman: Wait!
Man: But why?
Panel 9: A decorated Christmas tree.
Man: What? You got it for Christmas already?
Woman: I'm gonna assume you told me you had mysteries?
Caption: To read more about their book, go to first one in to your library and ask any book go to physicsworld.com/wenoidea
Votey:
FAQ:
Q: Zach, how come your art is so good today?
A: Fuck you!
Alt text
An eight-or-nine panel SMBC comic introducing a crossover with the cosmology book "We Have No Idea." In the first panel a woman tells the reader to press the J key to see a guest episode. The following panels show a frizzy-haired man enthusiastically explaining dark matter: that we're probably swimming in it, that the galaxy's center holds a huge dark matter halo denser at the core but extending in every direction, and that dark matter feels gravity but not electromagnetism or the nuclear forces, while nobody knows what it actually is. A woman counters his attempts to apply it to everyday objects, noting a box doesn't "contain" dark matter because the matter just passes through. The strip ends on a panel with a decorated Christmas tree as the two trade non-sequiturs, plus a caption pointing readers to the book. The votey (aftercomic) is a single panel titled "FAQ:" reading "Q: Zach, how come your art is so good today? A: Fuck you!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.