Comic #3186: 2014-02-06

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: “What’s the matter, honey?”
• Character 2: “Nothing.”

Panel 2:

• Character 1: “It’s clearly not ‘nothing.’”

Panel 3:

• Character 2: “Even empty space has vacuum energy, so ‘nothing’ is a stupid thing to say. God, if you had even a rudimentary knowledge of particle physics, it’d be obvious.”

Panel 4:

• Character 1: “Okay, fine. I’m upset by how you talk down to me all the time.”
• Character 2: “Oh…”

Panel 5:

• Character 1: “Oh honey, that’s not ‘nothing.’”
• Character 2: “That’s ‘negligible.’ Look it up.”