It’s deja-boom all over again

Wow, I thought the worry that the LHC might destroy the world was amusing, like most predictions of the end of the world. It turns out people have been sending actual death threats to LHC researchers.
The annoying part of this is that just a couple people (who Mark correctly identifies as crackpots) have managed to [...]

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Of warp drives and tooth fairies

Rocketboom is reporting that scientists have found a way to produce a Star Trek style warp drive. It’s a cute story, but it suffers from having more than one tooth fairy.
Let me explain.
The report appears to be based on this paper, by Richard Obousy and Gerald Cleaver from Baylor university. The idea of a warp [...]

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Destroying The Earth

In the break room for the theory group at SLAC, I once found a folder titled “Scientific Eschatology”. Eschatology being the study of end times, this presumably was an attempt to understand what our current theories tell us about how we could go splat.
It’s always fun to think about the ways the world might end. [...]

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