#2967: Matter
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[Tony Hawk (drawn with short hair) is gesturing at a narrow whiteboard on which illegible things are marked, what may be a Feynman diagram with one of the particle/antiparticle pair going into a circle (possibly representing a black hole, and thus depicting the popularized (incorrect) analogy for Hawking radiation), and at the bottom, a 2x3 table of illegible values.]
Tony Hawk: In the standard model, regular matter will annihilate if it comes in contact with oppositely-charged goofy matter.
[Caption below the panel:]
Tony Hawk becomes a physics professor
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.