Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-10-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:30:35 PDT, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said: > OK, ten bucks says they tear the fabric of the universe apart, and then can't > figure > out how to stitch it together again. (You ever notice that these "biggest in > the > world" things never seem to h

Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-11-01 Thread Gadi Evron
On 10/31/11 10:46 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Five bucks says they create a new universe, and the inhabitants of said universe, running at billions of times our time frame, evolve quickly into a race of super- intelligent beings, and, depressed by the futility of existence, come and des

Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-11-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:37:40 +0200, Gadi Evron said: > But as they can choose WHEN to enter our universe, A dubious proposition at best - they're pretty much restricted to entering the space-time cone of the lab *after* the experiment. If they can go back in time, that creates all the usual time

Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-11-01 Thread Gadi Evron
On 11/1/11 5:42 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:37:40 +0200, Gadi Evron said: But as they can choose WHEN to enter our universe, A dubious proposition at best - they're pretty much restricted to entering the space-time cone of the lab *after* the experiment. If they

Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-11-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:49:19 +0200, Gadi Evron said: > Not necessarily, this is uncharted territory. Their Universe may answer > to different laws of physics, and be independent of our own. But their entry point has to obey the laws of physics in *this* universe. pgpvPtsBkb1D9.pgp Descriptio

Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-11-01 Thread Remo Cornali
On 01/11/2011 17:12, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:49:19 +0200, Gadi Evron said: Not necessarily, this is uncharted territory. Their Universe may answer to different laws of physics, and be independent of our own. But their entry point has to obey the laws of physics in

Re: [funsec] There are some things man was not meant to meddle with ...

2011-11-01 Thread Gadi Evron
On 11/1/11 6:47 PM, Remo Cornali wrote: On 01/11/2011 17:12, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:49:19 +0200, Gadi Evron said: Not necessarily, this is uncharted territory. Their Universe may answer to different laws of physics, and be independent of our own. But their entry