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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!
- Message-ID: <Nov.5.18.44.13.1992.16675@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:44:13 GMT
- References: <Bx0LAG.MnL@well.sf.ca.us> <Bx5qtw.Cvw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <Nov.4.13.31.48.1992.25862@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <4NOV199214241699@csa1.lbl.gov>
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- sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- >Another small thing to keep you up at night: What if a mechanism analogous
- >to electoweak symmetry breaking is eventually going to break the remaining
- >electromagnetic symmetry? As the Universe continues to cool, it might
- >reach a point when it freezes out into a state in which the photon has mass.
- >(Just like the W and Z have mass right now.) What if the range of the
- >electromagnetic interaction became .01 meters all of a sudden? My nervous
- >system might fail. Heck - atoms might not be stable. I'm not sure.
-
- Uh, if this was going to happen, why wouldn't it have already happened
- in some very cold spot? Like the low temperature lab next door.
- Waitaminnit ... [ fwooshh!!!! ]
-
- Seriously, doesn't SSB usually occur when any old spot cools below
- the symmetry-restoring temperature?
-