That was obviously intended as a joke, but it doesn't mean the article
itself is.
On 9 September 2014 23:06, Stephen Paul King
wrote:
> Could it be that he is playing a joke on us? "...is unlikely to be funded..."
> Really!? What could be used to pay for such? Not enough mass in the Solar
> sys
Or maybe Hawking is "messing with us". He is well known for his pranks
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, John Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:52 PM, meekerdb wrote:
>
> > I don't think you can get energies like 10^11Gev even in supernova.
>
>
> I don't know about a supernova but we
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:52 PM, meekerdb wrote:
> I don't think you can get energies like 10^11Gev even in supernova.
I don't know about a supernova but we know for a fact that you can get
energies like that somewhere. The record energy for a cosmic ray particle
(probably a proton) was detected
Hi Brent,
Yes, but then we have to deal with the very real possibility that we
exist within a Black hole! How do we align the Baryon decay with "we live
in a black hole"? The latter is much most plausible, IMHO.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:51 AM, meekerdb wrote:
> If the Higgs field decays t
If the Higgs field decays the effect would be to make the quarks massless and protons and
neutrons would disintegrate. But inside a black hole it would have no effect on the rest
of the universe.
Brent
On 9/8/2014 11:45 PM, LizR wrote:
For the second question, as Brent pointed out physical qu
Could it be that he is playing a joke on us? "...is unlikely to be funded..."
Really!? What could be used to pay for such? Not enough mass in the Solar
system by my count.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:45 AM, LizR wrote:
> For the second question, as Brent pointed out physical quantities go to
> inf
Right, but that would make Hawking's claim even more ridiculous! An
exception to it would not be ever seen
Has he lost it? I do think so... Its a sad day. :_(
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:45 AM, LizR wrote:
> For the second question, as Brent pointed out physical quantities go to
> infinity
For the second question, as Brent pointed out physical quantities go to
infinity (or more realistically to the Planck scale) in black hole
formation. In other words they probably go as high as the universe will
allow - but since they're (normally?) inside an event horizon, we won't be
able to obser
Hi,
Has any one figured out how Hawking for that number and will you explain
it to us? Do energies of that scale even occur in the formation of black
holes?
On Sunday, September 7, 2014 11:17:19 PM UTC-4, cdemorsella wrote:
>
> What do the physicists on this list think about Hawkins recen
Actually it looks like Chris has come up with a natural source exceeding
the limit, which was, of course, all I was suggesting. If *anything* does
this, then the idea becomes highly unlikely, because it should have already
happened.
(Nice to be right, even if the details were wrong :-)
--
You re
Yes I also wondered if this occurred in black holes, but of course we can't
find out well not safely, or communicably! If these energies don't
occur in SN etc then I certainly don't see us producing them in the near
future. I only guessed SN because Hawking said we'd need an accelerator
"large
particles from space) coming
from "dis...
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Subject: Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle,"
On 9/7/2014 9:07 PM, LizR wrote:
If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ...
I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibility - that the
current state of the universe might be a false vaccuum (or something like that) which
could eventually drop into a lower en
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If I'm al
> On 8 Sep 2014, at 2:07 pm, LizR wrote:
>
> If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ...
>
> I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibility -
> that the current state of the universe might be a false vaccuum (or something
> like that) which could eventua
My first thought was that this has already happened in an uncountable
number of universes but we didn't survive those.
Terren
On Sep 8, 2014 12:07 AM, "LizR" wrote:
> If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ...
>
> I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibilit
If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ...
I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibility -
that the current state of the universe might be a false vaccuum (or
something like that) which could eventually drop into a lower energy state
and destroy the current un
What do the physicists on this list think about Hawkins recent claim that
the Higgs Boson can become metastable at energies above 10^11 GeV and
potentially cause the end of the universe by creating an unstoppable vacuum
expanding out at the speed of light?
Is there something - theoretically poss
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