So It Goes
this had to involve Emily, at some point
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but it's a big red button. must. push. big. red. button.
push it. Push It. PUSH IT!
I'll say it again, this is gonna be how you cancel this comic when you get tired of it
But not for a LONG LONG TIME
I wonder how many times a day Emily’s tracking team has to call the boss and ask, “Do we pull the trigger now?”
And, what is the longest anyone has ever lasted on the team??
Emily is my spirit animal.
The jolly, shiny, candy-like button...
Would be more worried if Emily said "They don't usually expand more than few miles if you are careful"
She can't. The government has placed real limits on what she can and can't say to others.
I'm now reading everything Emily says in Entrapta's voice.
Curse you; that's 100% correct and now I'm stuck with it! ^^
"So I said to myself, 'What's the worst that could happen?'"
Somebody needs to introduce Emily to Hanners' dad. They could solve all the world's problems! ...And invent a ton of new ones we've never even considered.
Old problems tend to have partial mitigations in place and stuff, or at least known workarounds. New problems don't. Thus, I tend to prefer to at least assess the first fix before implementing the second, third, fourth, fifth... Emily seems to be the sort to implement the tenth before assessing the first if she can get away with it. Hanners' dad seems to be the sort to just keep implementing things and let others worry about the fallout. They make me nervous.
FOR SCIENCE!!!!
Who could possibly be in Emily's karass?
I love Emily so much ❤️
Hey, Emily! (I got nothin' on the science. Please don't blow us up, Emily!)
The fact that Emily has already put that much thought into this is rather disturbing in and of itself.
"Callahan's Key", by Spider Robinson (if it hasn't already been cited), in which a bunch of telepathic barflies Save The World from the vacuum deflation.
As of this moment, I can only hear Emily's voice being the same voice as Entrapta from She-Ra.
See, I've never believed in any gods as such, but I've always believed that we have the potential to one day effectively *become* gods and figure out ways of budding off new universes in which to continue, once our current one winds down towards heat death. And if we accidentally wipe out the universe in the process, at least we tried and didn't go gentle into that good night!
I wonder what Raven would think of this...
What’s kind of frightening is that Raven probably <i>has</i> thought of this. Emily’s considered the theory, but Raven’s probably already done the calculations.
I’ve had to press the big red button befor, it can suck, but it can save your but
I like the reference to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five, in which the Tralfamadorians know about, and can/will do nothing about, their own impending accidental destruction of the universe.
Isn't this, like, the plot of Greg Egan's novel, "Schild's Ladder?" (The new universe grows at 1/2C, and once we figure out how to cross the barrier, it turns out the other side has much better physics...)
There is a Walter Jon Williams story about this, but naming it would be a spoiler.
There's a Ken McLeod book with a space drive which creates universes as a side-effect of its operation.
There is, in fact, some good reason to believe this is exactly how we got here. It doesn't even require a special force; the expanding bubble could easily pinch itself off into a new universe. Which is to say, QC is the secret prehistory of our universe. If things seem weird to you, blame Emily.
I can only handle so much science, man.
Somewhere some physics YouTuber is wondering who keeps asking them about micro-vacuums.
The shiny, candy-like button??
THE VERY ONE!
I DO WHAT I WANT!!! ::pushes the big red button::
The paint wouldn't even be dry before Emily pushes the BIG RED BUTTON.
I missed Emily
All I think when there's a big. Red. Button. Is, no more.
Agent Emily, push the little red button.... *Woooosh*
This is how physics-related SMBC comics get started. The ones where everyone inevitably dies.
There are comics where everyone inevitably lives?
Hi Emily, long time/no see. Also if anyone here could pull that off, yeah, it would be Emily. How do we know this hasn't been done, and the QC universe is a result?
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams
Geez louise Emily, chill! It's very typical of her to completely ignore the "oh no we're all gonna die" stuff and just think about the cool science one could do though
I accept Emily as the leader of my micro-universe. Imagine all of the fun and wacky things she would come up with!
Sweaters!
Emily, no!
EMILY, YES!