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Catch-42

🕑 Added 2019-11-17 01:59:31 +0000 UTC

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MA Caiti

Dora is very practical about these things.

Ack

Though ... if the universe continues expanding to the point that all local groups are moving away from each other faster than their local c, it means that any bubble of true vacuum would only annihilate that local group, not the entire universe.

awgiedawgie

The ultimate conundrum to life, the universe, and everything.

awgiedawgie

I see Jeph fixed the missing "could" for the main site, but didn't fix Hanners' blue eyes in the last panel.

awgiedawgie

If you had read his own comments below the comic, you'd have realized that he already knew that. And his name is Jeph, not Jeff.

Timmy

Catch-42: mutually conflicting answer to life the universe and everything?

Thomas Boys

*cheeps*

Sara Larner

Did Hanners' eyes change color in the last panel out of respect for Dora's power or alarm at her priorities?

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

In space

jeff fearnow

Jeeez, the wavefront from a gamma ray burst could be barreling towards at this moment and we have zero clue. Some things we can change and fret about - the rest just is.

Tachpmg

Now I know what reason you'll give if you ever decide to stop this series "a bubble of true vacuum wiped them all out"

there's a "could" missing in panel 4 Jeff!

Aaron Schulz

Silly thing to worry about, no stopping it. Just keep on trucking.

John Ridley

I recall someone asked AstroKate if she thought it was possible to intentionally collapse the quantum vacuum. She replied "please do not do that."

awgiedawgie

Not to mention worrying about <i>a lot</i> of other things disproportionately.

awgiedawgie

*Groan*

awgiedawgie

I think it started with a "c", but a big part of my memory is gone as well. Damned vacuum.

Kurt Larson

No! Leave it! It Take Billions! Think of the T-Shirt possibilities!!

Someone's being watching kurzgesagt.

I’d like a Blood Tree shirt. Or actually, how about some blood tree tunes JEPH

David Pipes

I can vouch that OCD people with anxiety worry about this sort of thing disproportionately.

Purple Dahlia

Panel 4: Quote Leslie Knope "I sad".

Bagge

Bummer

Thomas Boys

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Chris James

Hahahaha

Weddings are serious business

Some Ed

I add to that, "If it happens at the of the speed of light, it's not worth worrying about." I mean, seriously, what good can worrying about something that can happen so fast nothing we can observe will give us any warning of it? That said, this one sounds like a mathematical model glitch and nothing more.

Some Ed

Um, you're not supposed to guess that we're in one. That was supposed to be a surprise later.

z

Having said that, I can so see QC ending with Dora about to say "I do" at her wedding, and then there are two black panels, then Spookybot comes out and says, "Damn quantum vacuum collapse, whelp, startup from the previous version, then." The next day, we start with a redrawn #1.

Bill Hall

And, you thought this was an iteration of an actual reality?!

Bill Hall

Yep! Dora has her priorities firmly set, and I pity the (fool) Universe that gets in her way.

Joe

reaction 4: remarkable focus on priorities. excellent work.

Bill Hall

Hanners’, dammit Hanners’! Bogus punctuation trips the Grammar NAZI’s fuse, and then things #truly# get ugly.

Joe

reaction 3: Ice-9

Joe

reaction 2: what are you, a Pierson's Puppeteer??

Joe

reaction 1: sounds like my daughter

Vilinda

Are Hanner's eyes blue in panel 6?

Chong Go

>Argh there's a missing "could" in panel 4 My brain just read it in, and I never even noticed until I saw your comment! (Btw, thanks for sharing your art with us! It's always a bright spot in my day.)

Captain Button

As we all know, the apocalyptic event associated with Dora's wedding is when Pintsize goes "Now Ends The Age Of Man". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2126

Andrew

I try to stay in the state of “if I don’t understand the problem, it’s not worth worrying about”. But when I hear about things like this my internal Hanners jumps up and down. *sigh*

Firefly Jelly

Is there new evidence to indicate metastability? I thought it was extremely inconclusive.

Andrew

Do you also now write webcomics? I’m wondering is there’s a relationship :)

Joseph Houk

He knows.

David Durant

Nah, Simulation Hypothesis and I can't imagine the player wants to rage quit just yet ;-)

I think there's a word missing in frame 4 "it take" probably "it could take" ?

Grace Kieser

It's the same blue of her top, so it's probably a masking glitch

Aqua Allison

...did Hanner's eyes turn blue in the last panel? Is that normal or am I just out of the loop?

Summer Sudbrink

Well I feel better for not vacuuming today.

Matt Grayson

PSA: Theories are not reality. We change theories all the time. The next one might not include metastable vacua. It's still an open problem to show that our current QFT's are even consistent. We can compute with them, but we don't know if they HAVE any solutions. In other words, don't worry, Hanners.

JD

When are they going to start choosing people for the wedding party? I'm predicting Marten to be Tai's best person/person of honor and Faye to be Dora's.

R L

And the answer to that is: if it hasn't happened that way since the dawn of the freaking universe, either it's naturally occurring and stabilizes somehow before doom reaches us all each time, it doesn't happen because of things we don't understand, or we're in one. Edit: Yonatan wins.

Yonatan Zunger

Don't worry, Hanners. The fact that the universe has lasted this long places an upper bound on the mass gap of any possible false vacuum, which means that a nonzero value would require a dimensionless cosmic parameter to be fine-tuned to some atrociously small nonzero value. Any amount of futzing with the equations should quickly convince you that (a) that's really unlikely, and (b) if you're wrong you'll never know it anyway. False vacua are mostly important because we know we did live in one at the beginning of the universe, very briefly - and the aftermath of its collapse is us! Hi, this has been your drive-by commentary from a former string theorist. HTH. HAND.