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Good News for People Who Like Bad News
01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mikeās sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed itās been a couple years since weāve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update Iāll ever share.
So… Is the orange car the key to stopping the black hole?
I just love the “OH SHI-” face in the third panel.
Can’t wait to see the end of this!
The SECOND panel. It is THE SECOND PANEL.
I’m really hoping that he’s the other half of the equation and him getting sucked int shuts this whole thing down.
Light can’t escape a black hole. What makes you think your little orange prius is going to fare any better?
What do you think of the chances that the universe ends up on the other side of the sucky hole, but turned inside out?
That… That would be terrifying. I’d be both horrified and in awe if they somehow managed to illustrate that.
He was cheating on her, and deep down she knew. She knew, damnit! And it was eating her up inside…
First of all, I have to say – I’m reading the comic since it’s beginning, and it’s excellent.
Second – with all those monochromatic hues I’m starting to think this is all a dream.
And finally, I’m going to sound terribly pedantic, but that is a pet peeve of mine (mostly due to the “ZOMG LHC WILL KILL US ALL!ONE1!” conspiracy theories).
People, please – this is not a “black hole”. Why? Because:
-black holes evaporate. A black hole the size of a person would disappear in virtually an instant (and fry everything around it with radiation, BTW).
-it’s too big. A black hole the mass of the *Earth* has a Schwarzschild radius (the “black part”) of less than an *inch*. A black hole the mass of a hospital would be invisible to the naked eye.
-if that is an actual black hole (maybe it’s being fed mass from somewhere else?), the guy would have a snowflake’s chance in hell of getting to the car. Again, this is due to the size of the “black part” – let’s say, based one the number of floors, the hospital is 40m tall – at this point, the black hole would be as massive as 4500 Earths. I’ll let you figure anything nearby would be affected by something that massive.
Once again, sorry for the rant.
oh … no problem, it nice to get some cool info,
and i must add this whole comics serie is pure epic
Thanks for the science lesson! That being said, this is False Positive. Your puny human physics mean nothing here. š
Not a black hole.
A vortex? Wormhole? Cosmic portal? Antimatter implosion and chain reaction? The Nothing from “The Never Ending Story”?
Hole in the space-time continuum?
Vortex is broad enough. Antimatter literally ceases to exist when it comes into contact with matter – as my understanding of it follows.
All antiparticle/particle anihilations leave behind a pair of force carriers. For ordinary electron/positron collisions, it’s a pair of gamma ray photons (photons being “force carriers”). It’s usually a pair of photons and/or a pair of neutrinos, etc. Particles go in (baryons/fermions), photons come out, energy in equals energy out. You “see the light”… for a nanosecond or two š
What…?
My husband do those rants sometimes. You ask “why doesn’t this or that work” or another random question. You get a really long answer, while he, at the same time, is looking at wikipedia to be able to learn/elaborate some more. These days I just interrupt him with the words “big bang.” (he’s been compared to sheldon a few times)
And also, FP doing “it’s all a dream” would be so, so disappointing
I would never.
The “It was all a dream/ near-death-nightmare” plot is one of my biggest story a pet peeves; Such a jip.
I’m going to take a wild guess that it’s not a natural phenomenon.
Nah your wrong. We have these constantly where I live.
No no it obviously is a natural phenomenon! Stories of entire cities being sucked up by vortexes happen ALL the time, havn’t you heard?
That car is the answer, though it’s hard to guess what or why. Since that guy is inside it, perhaps he’ll survive.
I like the idea of it being “The Nothing”
I had to laugh that he’s adjusting the rear view mirror.
Well, when you’re driving you *should* be looking at where you will be going…Even if you’d *rather* be going the opposite direction.