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Sep 12, 2006 16:25

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=325&objectid=10400645

o r'yleh?

ia r'yleh!

this is a bad idea truefalse

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rhwainwright September 13 2006, 01:13:09 UTC
note this is on your side of the pond

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starfishmaniac September 13 2006, 00:19:01 UTC
am i going crazy, or are you? what is going on?!?!

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rhwainwright September 13 2006, 01:12:02 UTC
little o both hon
i suspect we are just evening out with the rest of the vast universe

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starfishmaniac September 13 2006, 02:38:27 UTC
i guess okay you win

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dap6000 September 13 2006, 00:51:50 UTC
it won't work this time. but i suspect something will come of all this round about my 33rd birthday. read into that what you will.

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rhwainwright September 13 2006, 01:14:06 UTC
says it will take a decade maybe two
have a friend who thinks satan is going to pop out
mayhap!

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briar_witch September 13 2006, 01:04:24 UTC
The answer if 42.

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colm_l September 13 2006, 11:02:11 UTC
hah. Luddites all ;)

This is totally an exaggeration

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rhwainwright September 13 2006, 13:19:52 UTC
explain

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colm_l September 13 2006, 13:40:41 UTC
Well, as someone who has a fair amount of scientific knowledge (not specifically a physicist but as an engineer)- it sounds like the article has been severely dumbed down & exagerated for the public.

As a quick example: 10^-40 is a staggeringly low number - it's about the same chance of picking a person out of the world's population, doing it again & getting the same person & again & again.... (the worlds population is about 6*10^10).

Chances are quite good that the study of these effects is being lauded as mini-black holes rather than particle studies...because it sounds sexier ;)

Dong Ma?

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rhwainwright September 13 2006, 15:00:17 UTC
though aware that 10^-40 is pretty low the fact that odds exist for such a thing are somewhat alarming

besides how does one arrive at the destruction of the world mathematically

in addition i see there is to be at least ten years in which things can go wrong

also just fun to think about flipping the switch andsatan coming out of that thing

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