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- From: rhatcher@fnala.fnal.gov
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!
- Date: 6 Nov 92 08:59:12 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.085912.1@fnala.fnal.gov>
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- In article <MATT.92Nov5105233@physics2.berkeley.edu>, matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:
- |> 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
-
- Ah, if I remember right from the Michigan push to get the SSC, there *were*
- detractors that did bring up such arguments. Not quite as dramaticly as
- organized protests, but more a wispering campaign. There were also a
- non-negligible number who got very much in arms over the part of the plans
- leading to the beam dump that was labelled "abort". Hit a "hot button" with
- that one; I'm not sure they ever quite understood. :-(
-
- -robert
-
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