Re: YASID: Particle accelerator destroys universe
- From: Rich Horton <rrhorton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:51:49 GMT
On 2 Mar 2006 09:02:44 -0800, "Bob Hearn" <bob.hearn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A new, fancy particle accelerator is completed, and turned on. But it
doesn't operate as expected. Some extremely unlikely failure is
discovered, and fixed. But then the pattern repeats - another unlikely
failure. Eventually the theoreticians realize that they are very
fortunate, because the accelerator, if running properly, would have
collapsed the false vacuum, and effectively destroyed the known
universe. But wait - maybe the failures happened because it was only in
the possible worlds that they did happen that people would still be
around to observe the results...
That's about what I remember from reading a summary of this story (or
novel?) several years ago. I'd like to track it down.
I'm not sure this the same story, but aspects of it remind me of
Michael Burstein's "Broken Symmetry", in Analog, February 1997. Except
in that story they end up communicating with other parallel worlds in
which the accelarators are working. (And the accelerator is the SSC,
begun and then abandoned for budgetary reasons in our world.)
.
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