Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 22, 2015

So cute that they eat together!! I love it.

Loris has changed her hair style. She has switched sides.

She does act neutrino-like, however: very small and very fast.

If they went together Loris could be a neutrino, Andre a particle smasher and Petey a vacuum.

I doubt small trifles as normal matter would bother Loris. She just passes right through.

My close college friend went on to write his dissertation on neutrinos (our physics department way back then had one of the leading neutrino experts on faculty). Now, neutrinos have been found to have some mass. More than you ever wanted to know about neutrinos. The professor I mentioned is named in the last paragraph above the mid-column illustration on the sub-page “Birth of Neutrinos.”Loris is a great analogy for a neutrino!

Maybe he meant a “nutria.” She kind of looks like one.

Neutrinos are subatomic particles produced by the decay of radioactive elements and are elementary particles that lack an electric charge, or, as F. Reines would say, “…the most tiny quantity of reality ever imagined by a human being”.

Neutrinos – Nutrients. Close enough.

and how timely, even though this strip is from 2010—

“This year’s (2015) Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by Japan’s Takaaki Kajita and Canada’s Arthur McDonald for their key contributions to experiments which revealed that the ghostlike elementary particles called neutrinos have mass and are polymorphous.”

The most relevant thing here is that neutrinos come in three tasty flavors!

New QUANTUM-Os®! Now with Neutrinos! A virtually massless part of a complete breakfast!