[ExI] did the multiverse just get thinner?
Alejandro Dubrovsky
alito at organicrobot.com
Wed Aug 5 09:37:56 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 11:42 -0500, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Giant Particle Collider Fizzles
> By DENNIS OVERBYE
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/space/04collide.html?ref=science>
>
> <The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled
> with thousands of bad electrical connections.
>
> Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles
> around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their
> ability to operate at high energies.>
>
> Has anyone yet commented on the (extremely implausible) possibility
> that the LHC *must* create a world-killing black hole--or wormhole or
> the like--in the vast majority of adjacent or superposed worlds where
> a series of absurd accidents and coincidences *hasn't* stopped the
> machine from being activated? And since we're still here, it's
> precisely because our world is one of the few with the serious
> breakdowns...
Yes. Usual suspects.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/u5/how_many_lhc_failures_is_too_many/
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