Something new to worry about
In case you don’t have enough to worry about already, and are looking to supplement your angst-inducing list, there’s this.
“Low-probability, high-impact” indeed.
[Hat tip: Instapundit.]
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Wait until humanity realizes that psychic powers are just quantum phenomenon controlled by pure Will.
This also, interestingly enough, reminds me of Steins;Gate, where some independent scientists in an apartment/lab started conducting time travel experiments using a hacked access of a particle accelerator to manipulate black holes.
Since black holes form a substantial part of current day time travel theories.
Now we know why we’ve never found another planetary civilization anywhere in the universe.
Every planetary civilization survives until it builds one of these and starts experimenting with it
To paraphrase (likely the last words of every inter-stellar civilization): “Yeah, we’ve never tried it with these settings before, but what the hey, let’s power ‘er up and see what happens!”
Maybe it’s finally time to cash out that 401k…
“would then become “an inert hyperdense sphere about one hundred metres across.”
Travel to Europe would be cheaper.
How do we know this hasn’t already happened? It might explain a lot.
One of Insta’s commenters said there was no chance for this happening, because other stars produced the same kind of particles as part of the stellar fusion.
I always wonder, maybe that star is a pulsar or white dwarf because it produced those particles and didn’t just get that way due to stellar progression.
I wouldn’t want our star to become a white dwarf. Then global warming would be a good thing. More of a good thing.
There was also a story years ago about a string of supernovas in the sky some X light years ago. I thought it was a bunch of interstellar star busters working to defeat the enemy.
We have plenty of strangelets in DC, I hope they stay there and don’t visit Iowa before the 2016 caucus.
Relax, it’s lawyers all the way down. Talk about strangelets collapsing the world…
Let’s see now, unobserved particles produced in a unverified theory might cause a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. Sounds like Global Warming to me. Where can I sign up for a grant to buy my own personal supercomputer to verify this?
“What are the chances that a particle collider’s strangelets will destroy the Earth?”
As long as I can watch Obama’s face melt first, I don’t care.
Wow. Two lawyers doing reviews of physics experiments. I salute their expertise. I also love the weasel words “some people worried,” which is another way of saying “we couldn’t find a single physicist who could stop laughing long enough to explain why this was bogus.”
I would agree to this review proposal only if they promise to leg physics professors review the salaries of law professors.