antimatter
Original: antimatter on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Against a black, starry void, two glowing blobs of matter float and speak to each other.
First glowing blob (blue-green): HEY, I NEED SOME ANTIMATTER. COULD YOU PRECIPITATE SOME OUT OF THE VOID?
Second glowing blob (yellow-orange): SURE THING.
Panel 2: The two blobs again in the void.
Yellow-orange blob: WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THE REGULAR MATTER THAT GOT CREATED AS A BYPRODUCT?
Blue-green blob: WHO CARES? IT'S CRAP.
Panel 3: A caption in the void points off-panel: "UNIVERSE BEING CREATED OFF-PANEL."
Panel 4: Caption banner reads: 13.8 BILLION YEARS LATER.
A balding, bespectacled older man (a professor type) stands in front of a green chalkboard, holding a small remote/pointer.
Professor: NO THEORY CAN YET EXPLAIN THE RARITY OF ANTIMATTER IN THE COSMOS.
Votey:
Hand-lettered text in a hand-drawn box, no image:
HOW COME THE STANDARD MODEL DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT WHICH PARTICLES ARE TOTAL BULLSHIT?
First glowing blob (blue-green): HEY, I NEED SOME ANTIMATTER. COULD YOU PRECIPITATE SOME OUT OF THE VOID?
Second glowing blob (yellow-orange): SURE THING.
Panel 2: The two blobs again in the void.
Yellow-orange blob: WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THE REGULAR MATTER THAT GOT CREATED AS A BYPRODUCT?
Blue-green blob: WHO CARES? IT'S CRAP.
Panel 3: A caption in the void points off-panel: "UNIVERSE BEING CREATED OFF-PANEL."
Panel 4: Caption banner reads: 13.8 BILLION YEARS LATER.
A balding, bespectacled older man (a professor type) stands in front of a green chalkboard, holding a small remote/pointer.
Professor: NO THEORY CAN YET EXPLAIN THE RARITY OF ANTIMATTER IN THE COSMOS.
Votey:
Hand-lettered text in a hand-drawn box, no image:
HOW COME THE STANDARD MODEL DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT WHICH PARTICLES ARE TOTAL BULLSHIT?
Alt text
A four-panel comic. In the first two panels, set against a black starry void, two glowing colored blobs of matter talk to each other. The blue-green blob asks the yellow-orange blob to "precipitate some" antimatter out of the void; the orange blob agrees, then asks what to do with all the regular matter created as a byproduct. The blue-green blob replies, "Who cares? It's crap." A small caption labels this as "universe being created off-panel." The final panel jumps "13.8 billion years later" to a balding professor at a chalkboard solemnly stating, "No theory can yet explain the rarity of antimatter in the cosmos" — the joke being that the cosmic shortage of antimatter was just two blobs casually discarding ordinary matter as junk. The votey is a hand-lettered text-only panel reading: "How come the Standard Model doesn't say anything about which particles are total bullshit?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.