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Title text: Jorge has this interesting artistic he calls 'shading.' It's a little avant-garde for my taste, but I hope you like it.

Votey

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Hey, geeks! Our friends, jorge cham and daniel whiteson, have an awesome new paysics/cosmology book coming out called we have no idea. So, we thought wed do a crossover comic. Theres also a regular smbc update, which you can see now by pressing the n key.

0. Zach

I think pop science sometimes gives the wrong impression of dark matter. People think it's this thing somewhere way out in space, like its a black hole or something.

But dark matter is here! We're probably swimming in it!

If you look at the center of our galaxy, there's a huge dark matter halo. It's most dense at the center, but it extends out in every direction.

If the earth wasn't surrounded by dark matter, that would mean our neighborhood is the only place in the galaxy that lacks the most common stuff in the universe.

But what is this stuff? Nobody knows!

The only thing we know is that it feels gravity, it doesn't feel electromagnetism, and it doesn't feel the weak or strong nuclear force.

So if say I got a box, I could say, "this contains dark matter

Hmm. No. Not really. I mean, the box doesn't "contain" it. The box is around dark matter, but the dark matter just moves through it.

I suppose you could say it's a "box of dark matter."

And speaking as an expert, would the same be true of let's say a re-used giftbag?

L... sure. But why?

Oh! There wego!

Later...

What'd you get us for christmas, mommy?/

Remember how you told me you like mysteries?

To read more about their book, or to just give in to your dorky impulse and buy now, go to: Pmdcomics.Com/noidea

Caption: smbc-comics.com

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Faq:

Gzach, how come your art 15 so good today?

A: Fuck you!

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