MythTickle by Justin Thompson for July 12, 2013

And it was quite solid I can assure you.

So you wouldn’t mind if I bonked you upside the head with this unsolid rock?

Lucretius: atoms in the void.Today’s physicist: strings in the void.Boody: ouch!

Nah. Nothing actually touched. Just the electric fields of charged particles getting close enough to repel each other…

So if I understand this, he’s just mathematically proven that everything we see is an illusion like the Taoists have said for over a thousand years?

No it’s just “time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.”

Aww. its greek to me…

How do you know he went to any trouble finding the equation? Maybe he’s just extremely intelligent to start off with. ;:^)

Excellent strip Justin, I love Boddy’s expression in panel one. That’s pretty much what I look like when someone is trying to explain an equation like that to me. ;-}