So It Goes

push it. Push It. PUSH IT!

Christopher Beer

So we veer immediately back to ro-butts, of course!

Mark

I am loving where this strip is right now.

lilibat

but it's a big red button. must. push. big. red. button.

Joe

But not for a LONG LONG TIME

MamaSockster

I'll say it again, this is gonna be how you cancel this comic when you get tired of it

Tachpmg

And, what is the longest anyone has ever lasted on the team??

Bill Hall

I wonder how many times a day Emily’s tracking team has to call the boss and ask, “Do we pull the trigger now?”

Bill Hall

A universe where people have REAL stars in their eyes.

J.M. Hall

Fair enough. I suspect even Yey finds Emily a bit scary :)

David Howe

Emily is my spirit animal.

Joseph Loder

Well, they do, but it's an AI and Yay has been subtly subverting/redirecting them for some time now. :)

Czarzhan

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.

awgiedawgie

The jolly, shiny, candy-like button...

Uniquitous

Only when they know. I am surprised they don't have a full time agent watching her by now...

David Howe

She can't. The government has placed real limits on what she can and can't say to others.

Joseph Bonnar

Or to Station

ysth

Curse you; that's 100% correct and now I'm stuck with it! ^^

Would be more worried if Emily said "They don't usually expand more than few miles if you are careful"

David Howe

I'm now reading everything Emily says in Entrapta's voice.

Milayna

"So I said to myself, 'What's the worst that could happen?'"

Dr. Otter

The problems of the future, today!

Andreas "Rowas" Lind-Sahlin

There's a Ken McLeod book with a space drive which creates universes as a side-effect of its operation.

Clifton Royston

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.

Some Ed

THE VERY ONE!

jeff fearnow

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.

Eric Lusby

FOR SCIENCE!!!!

Bagge

Who could possibly be in Emily's karass?

ysth

I love Emily so much ❤️

Fart Captor

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.

awgiedawgie

"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.

Sleepy John

There are comics where everyone inevitably lives?

Sleepy John

As of this moment, I can only hear Emily's voice being the same voice as Entrapta from She-Ra.

Panic Blitz

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!

Peter Jensen

I wonder what Raven would think of this...

The Shadow's Lair

I’ve had to press the big red button befor, it can suck, but it can save your but

FuzzyDragon Cosplay

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.

Michael Voorhis

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...)

Elf Sternberg

I can only handle so much science, man.

R L

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” - Terry Pratchett

Summer Sudbrink

“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

Captain Button

Sweaters!

Michael Boettger

There is a Walter Jon Williams story about this, but naming it would be a spoiler.

Captain Button

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.

Yonatan Zunger

Somewhere some physics YouTuber is wondering who keeps asking them about micro-vacuums.

Miyaa

The shiny, candy-like button??

Czarzhan

I DO WHAT I WANT!!! ::pushes the big red button::

Shawn K. Younkin

The paint wouldn't even be dry before Emily pushes the BIG RED BUTTON.

z

I missed Emily

Alcaria Swain

All I think when there's a big. Red. Button. Is, no more.

Akashimo Hakubi

Agent Emily, push the little red button.... *Woooosh*

Max D S

This is how physics-related SMBC comics get started. The ones where everyone inevitably dies.

Lucanid Landman

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?

Michael Boettger

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

Dave, Duke of Fridges

I accept Emily as the leader of my micro-universe. Imagine all of the fun and wacky things she would come up with!

Bailey Tighe

EMILY, YES!

Lord Crusade

Emily, no!

Edward Clayton Andrews