Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4136-4140 (Nov 18th-22nd, 2019)
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: Hypersapien on 18 Nov 2019, 04:20 ---Wasn't that a Greg Egan book?
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Schild's Ladder. An accidentally engineered, rather than spontaneous, vacuum decay. And propagating at half light speed rather than full, because it's set in a non-FTL universe and it would be hard to construct a plot out of it if the first anyone knew about there being a problem was when their planet was wiped out of existence. Tied with Diaspora as my favourite of his.
BenRG:
It reminds me of a similar unpredictable and unstoppable all-destroying cataclysm - Strange quarks. Once they appear, all the up and down quarks that make up the baryonic matter of the universe would turn into mixes of strange and charm quarks and probably not work anymore, at least not with the laws of physics as we know them.
Case:
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 19 Nov 2019, 02:42 ---An accidentally engineered, rather than spontaneous, vacuum decay. And propagating at half light speed rather than full, because it's set in a non-FTL universe and it would be hard to construct a plot out of it if the first anyone knew about there being a problem was when their planet was wiped out of existence.
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"There are some remaining problems concerning the reproducibility of our theory, Sir ..." :-D
traroth:
"The eternal silence of those infinite spaces frightens me", Blaise Pascal
How to fill the eternal silence of those infinite spaces?
(click to show/hide)//www.youtube.com/watch?v=I55Rbtoo1lg
cybersmurf:
When we get down to subatomic particles, even matter becomes a lot of empty space. There's a reason you need a lump of radioactive material large enough to sustain the chain reaction for nukes.
Thinking about it, you don't even have to go subatomic. Now, in a time of search for alternative fuels, hydrogen is a well known candidate. Problem: H2 molecules are so small they even creep trough metal. As in "the gaps in the molecular structure of a solid piece metal are too large to contain hydrogen".
Makes me wonder: if you want empty space, go huge (astronomical), or go tiny. We humans may just be too mediocre to be empty.
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