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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!
- Date: 5 Nov 92 10:52:33
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 18:17:58 GMT
-
- In article <mcirvin.720987478@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu
- (Mcirvin) writes about the possibility that we are only living in a
- false vacuum now and that high-energy experiments might catalyze a
- phase transition to the true vacuum:
-
- > I once opined to Eric Carlson that this was an idea that had been
- > insufficiently exploited in science fiction. He pointed out to
- > me that "it would be a very short novel."
-
- And I once suggested to Lawrence Hall that it was a truly wonderful
- opportunity for rabble-rousing politics---definitely an argument
- against the SSC that hasn't yet been sufficiently exploited by the
- project's opponents.
-
- I can just visualize the scene in Waxahachie: thousands of protestors
- chaining themselves to the gates and throwing themselves in front of
- bulldozers, holding up signs that say "Save the universe"!
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
-