Humanity's Biggest Mistake may have been in 1998

[ericjherboso]

Okay, while I'm still in physics mode, I wanted to bring something to everyone's attention. For reference, I am getting the following from arXiv.org. Popular reviews are also in the press at New Scientist, Ars Technica, and Wired.com.

The paper in question, by Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, and colleague James Dent, is

Comments

[blessedlunatic]

I can foresee a bunch of people on Digg and places like that getting all clever and going for the post-apocalyptic critique of science and all that "we shouldn't have meddled!" type shit (and seeing people who don't believe in science playing "gotcha"), but this is different from like a mad scientist creating a monster from the parts of cadavers or scientists creating a nuclear bomb.

[ericjherboso]

Believe it or not, it seems to be getting past peer review with only minor modification.

I am constantly amazed by the intense craziness of high end physics. This is seriously fucked up shit.

[ericjherboso]

Sorry, didn't mean to reply to your comment on this one, Matt. I just tend to comment on my own older entries from time to time whenever I get new info.