Or A Boson
Or a boatswain
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vector or scalar? That's the question.
Oh this could be wonderful... Please keep this going for a while Jeph, the idea of somebody unable to unlock Liz's gremlin side is too enticing 😂😂😂
Emily's getting along, Liz not so much.
She's trying to say ‘sstrange squark’, which is a fundamental sfermion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfermion
Somewhere out there is a particle physicist with a slight speech impediment who *really* styled it out...
The downside of getting to see the comics a day early is that they also stop for the week early, and I'm left missing them on Thursday evenings. :)
I was *just* thinking this when talking to a friend who is a fellow QC fan but not currently in the Patreon . Somehow I get thrown off and can never remember clearly which days are no-comic days
Besties already
"I'm delicious on sandwiches and salads!".... oh, wait, wrong comic.
Something, something, Pauli Exclusion Principle
I just figured out that Emily is absolutely necessary for this intellectual ecosystem. There's a good chance that she's going to make Liz actually productive through oblivious enthusiasm and casual ego-free genius.
Mostly the second one, I'd imagine. Cubetown already had a plentiful supply of oblivious enthusiasm.
Did you just 'ship' them?
I ship them, but I fear (hope?) that Liz will go too far and start designing new limbs for... activities.
My cat did exactly that to the nice neighbor lady who agreed to feed her & her brother while I was away. Now she’s happy to see the neighbor.
heh, just realized the emily is doing that "scrunch down to seem less threatening to small animals" thing. (Or she's looming :-)
Emily and Liz are each reacting like an alien species visiting humanity but they're *different* alien species :)
Terence nailed that fallacy two thousand years ago. ("I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.")
Oh this is so much more delightful than I had considered. I see we shall be dining well in the near future.
Emily and Liz most definitely need their own sitcom now
QC is all of the sitcoms :)
OOH I LOVE THIS ALREADY
Honestly, Emily is probably one of the best people to befriend Liz. She is willing to just roll with most things in life, and is pretty hard to offend beyond stealing her puns.
Maybe Liz will be willing to give peas a chance
It’s a good thing goblins aren’t venomous. If Liz was a gremlin, Emily might be in serious danger!
BOOM
Don’t worry, Emily, it’s just a quark in her personality.
Oy
Ah yes, the elusive Hiss Boson. Not to be confused with that other one.
Emily is the sort of gal who's going to walk into the room and announce that she just got married, but when they ask, she won't be quite certain to who, or how it happened.
... to Liz???
The meeting we've been waiting for. Science Gremlin and Science… Ditz? Eccentric? No, they’re all eccentric.
I can't envision Emily as a ditz. She's fully aware of the world around her, she just chooses to ignore it part of the time. Unlike Liz she's a fully functioning adult, she just doesn't give a rip about what anyone thinks of her.
As a former USN Boatswain's Mate, I approve of this message!
Whosa adorable lil goblin? You, Lizzie! You're the adorable lil goblin!
"I SAID! NEVER! CALL! ME! LIZZIE!! RRRAAAAAARGHHH!!!!" *berserker murder rampage* https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4981
Am I the first to think twice about Cockswain?
I hesitate to correct that, for reasons. but it's "coxswain".
the g e n i u s e s :D
ive been waiting for this!.akihiko.voice.line
When your new science whiz Might get bitten by Liz That's A Moray!
When you ignore the hiss And her chompers don't miss That's aaaaooowOOOWWwowwowoaayyy
Liz being sociable…
Yes. As Emily has correctly guessed, this is a threat display. If other people are too stupid to recognise that and respond accordingly, the fault is theirs.
Ssssss
Liz, you appear to be leaking carbon dioxide...just there.
It's a hypothetical pentaquark state...but it can't exist as written (does not conserve color, has fractional charge.) You'd need at least one s-antiquark (written as an s with an overline.)
I initially read that as "pentaquirk". Come to think of it, that might be accurate
So does Emily.
I'm partial to tachyons myself
Fictons, here.
banana smoothie?
They need a hammer, a banananananananananananana, and somebody who can use one upon the other to have it work.
Never get enough of Emily. This arc is good.
They will. (Get along, that is.)
"sssss" is the sound of the whistle that the boson makes.
Perhaps, but in THIS case I think it's the sound that happens just before goblin goes feral and very, very bitey. (Like Grim Samantha's snakes.)
Next Week: Steve tries French Squirrel’s French Toast Bisous and is surprised that it doesn’t taste like squirrel.
Liz, it's Schrodinger's Coffee shop: both open and closed at the same time!
So it's clopen. If only they had a sign for that.
Friendly hobbit, ssss the smile it burns, precious ssss
Liz's favorite particle is the hiss-trion.
It was discovered by CERN at the Large Gremlin Collider.
I forget how tall Emily is. Is she as climbable as Dale?
There's no way she worked at the library that long without Tai at least trying it.
The goblin has been triggered. Has the potential ship run aground? HEY! Call in Ol' Boaty to help the ship stay afloat!
The waters are always a little rocky when a ship prepares to launch.
The big question is, what epithet was Liz about to hurl at Marten in panel 1?
for some reason my mind filled the blank with "coxswain"
Emily, it is both a threat display AND a new kind of fermion. You can name it either the "quirk" or the "lizton".
Next week: Liz and Emily are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of a new elementary particle: the gremlon
They're getting along infamously.
Or at least like a Cubetown building on fire.
Good job Emily, you've successfully completed step one in the long and complex process of befriending a gremlin. Now, for step two you'll need a handle of foulest rotgut, a golf club (preferably a putter) and a pinata full of batteries. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5553 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5586
sssss is a very unstable strange pentaquark.
Pentaquark? Doesn't he run the bar on Deep Space 45?
Since Emily was gone when Liz visited, it’s refreshing to see them finally eat, I mean, meet.
What not to do when introducing a new pet to the household.
So they should have let Liz sniff Emily under the door?
I have never thought of Liz as a red panda before. But here we are.
This the nature of quantum physics. Either this is going great or it doesn’t. You won’t know by observing, as that can change the state.
This position. It is super!
"You're supposed to be closed today!" "But the sign-" "The sign says CLOSED, which is why I know you're open!"
Neither, she's leaking air...
I heard that in a jaegermonster's voice!
Here the feral scientist is introduced to a slightly more domesticated, friendlier member of her species. How will she react?
Moray: I'm gonna stick my head in her mouth!
Ol' Boaty's boatswain is named Higgs.
Obligatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYeroGkPULI
Emily used oblivious. It's super effective!
I missed Emily more than I realized. This is great.
whale eye
Stick with “boson”… Ssssss
Bossssson.
They are certainly alongside each other... is that the half?
Marten should have a spray bottle nearby for when Liz goes feral.
I am enjoying this already
Been waiting for this meet-hiss all week!