Grrl Power #1402 - Spacehole (Patreon)

Thank you for the support! You guys and grrls are awesome!

It's less that the FlyBall is blinking and shimmering and making noises like an agitated gerbil, and more that it's doing... something. The visual are mostly for the audiences benefit, though if Sydney was paying attention, she would notice something going on. She has gotten used to being orbited by multicolored light sources though, so this isn't enough to catch her attention. 

As to Sydney's question... Well, the reason I have Altus's answer trail off the last panel is 1) an advanced space alien probably knows more about physics that we do. We like to think we mostly have a handle on stuff, but dark matter comprises about 27% of the universe, and dark energy accounts for about 68% of other... "stuff," and we don't know what that is either. So, we don't know what 95% of the universe is made of, and we also haven't married Newtonian and quantum physics, so it's fair to say that there might be some significant surprises left for use to discover. Maybe instead of nickel-iron, most rocky planetary cores are tungsten, which would maybe make up for 2-3% of the dark matter. Or maybe a bunch of aliens thought it'd be cool to paint their planets Vanta Black and we just can't see them. 

BTW, "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" sound cool for sure, but it's just a fancy way for scientists to say "we dunno." It'd be like trying to recreate grandma's holiday ginger cookies from taste and not being able to figure out what that last seasoning is, and calling it "Dark Spice." It's cardamon, BTW. 

The second reason for the trail-off is, I just have no idea how to answer it. It seems to me that wormholes would be weapons of mass destruction. Like they destroy actual mass, and lots of it. But that model of a wormhole that shows two pieces of graph paper being connected by a funnel is obviously such a wildly simplistic view of what's going on that any speculation I made based on that would be like trying to recreate grandma's cookie recipe after shoving one of the cookies up my ass. Which wouldn't give me an informed starting point regarding the ingredients, is what I'm saying. Unless the human rectum just happens to be an excellent platform for ferreting out cardamon. I wouldn't know. I would be surprised to learn if that's the case, but I think it's safe to assume our crinkle stars aren't cardamon truffle hogs.