Physics Class Is In Session

I mean, the Y-axis only seems flat, until it isn’t. Just like our universe!

Weirdly, the (mostly) cylindrical section in the centre is flat as well -- you can unfold a cylinder into a flat sheet and so it has "flat" geometry. But the part where the radius changes is negatively curved -- a triangle inscribed on the neck of the beer bottle would have its angles add to less than 180.... So if the surface of the universe were a beer bottle, there would only be accelerating expansion near the neck of the bottle... and I think that means we never get to the actual beer. That's an ironic universe made by a mocking Canadian god, that is.

One word: synergy!!

Liz powers release engaged!!

they're gonna make such sweet science together

The content of the bottle is responsible for spin 😵‍💫!

I remember reading about string theory in high school and this just makes me feel the same way I did then. :P

It rocks that Liz is making friends with Emily. It'll be really good for her.

"My God...it's full of stars!" "No, Dave, those are just CO2 bubbles." "Oh. Thanks, Hal. Um. Well then...My God...it smells like hops!"

I actually understood that. I am now afraid. Where has my familiar and comfortable math simpleton mind gone?

They should almost certainly kiss about it

That's the story anyway. But the string theorists always run into a problem when you try to Lorentz transform the wrapped-up dimension. Nothing that should happen does.

It’s amazing how many theories in physics get started when a could of grad students get sh*tfaced together. Granted, almost all of them are wrong, but the ones that work (and someone can remember after they sober up) are gangbusters.

I seem to recall seeing a comment on one of these like a decade ago where Jeph said that Marten being happy was never going to happen in the series. I'm glad we've moved away from that. I like seeing him in a happy relationship.

Donald Sutherland: "... a tiny, little universe." Thomas Hulce: "Can I buy some pot from you?"

Of COURSE the universe isn't a beer bottle. It's more like a cake. A delicious, moist, fluffy chocolate cake with just the right amount of frosting and strawberries and what were we talking about again? Is anyone else hungry? https://web.archive.org/web/20260326041556/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5198

"Our species developed warp technology from beer bottles" - Either Star Trek Engineers or Space Orcs, They're Pretty Much The Same Thing

Maybe it's just me, but this conversation happening would make more sense if they were stoned instead of drunk.

Little known fact -- reality actually takes the form of an echidna. It's got to be - no other explanation exists for why no matter where we go, or which way we turn, we're constantly surrounded by a bunch of massive pricks.

I'm not a theorist, but this is a passably adequate explanation of large extra dimensions from an experimentalist's perspective. It would be really weird.

Is that Bolson Beer, or Boltzmann Beer?

Maybe this is why Liz keeps getting drunk. She's trying to DRINK the universe!

the universe is actually a very tasty noodle shape, but isn't actually very tasty

“Now imagine the inside of a ping-pong ball” … [universe blips out of existence]

Jeph you must give all the cosmologists moar headaches! They deserve it! (they know what they did) ((no not really...they don't deserve it...we gotta be nice to our poor overworked cosmologists)) (((i'm a great supporter of anyone who studies aurelia's dog cosmo)))

At least with Zlata taken home, Claire and Marten can keep an eye on one each xD

The dimensions are coming from inside the bottle!

QC bottle episode.

I feel like a "hyperpod" would be polyamorist slang

Random thought of the day: We need more Upsettia in our life. Preferably with more Horologia.

Pay attention, students. There WILL be a quiz later. :) And NO, it will not be about butts or butt curvature. Get yer minds outta the gutter!

Now KISS (Keep Instigating Space Shenanigans)

I mean the field coupling strength is a curiosity. Reality being a well-formed and compact beer-bottle manifold would at least explain what is on the other side of the Schwarzschild Radius though...

One of these days, some cosmologist friend of yours is going to react to a strip like this, and say "Yeah, I mean of course it's not like this, because..." followed by 8 hours of mad scribbling before they call you and ask if you'll be the co-author of their paper and you end up with a Nobel.

Only 11 dimensions? You need at least 13 dimensions just to explain cats.

Trust me, there is nothing worse than drunk meteorologists either drunk forecasting whether a tornado is going to touch down or drunk complain about the movie Twister, right down to their breakfast.

older sister for Liz acquired

Liz and Emily need to be partners (both romantically and professionally) to get Liz out of her burn out.

Well it SHOULD be

If you ever want to start a fight in a physocs department talk about m-theory/string-theory

I continue to adore Emily

EXTREME ZOOM