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Old 20-06-2011, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
I'd be more concerned about false vacuums.
Harnessing ZPE in a false vacuum can be bad for your health.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_...tability_event

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Steven
Interesting … sounds quite nasty !

I notice that cosmic ray collisions observed ~ 10^20 eV or 10^14 eV (depending on which source one looks at .. that's 0.999c !), have been predicted to be matched in particle accelerators by 2150 (John Leslie, 1998 (1998). "The End of the World:The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction.").

.. an adventuresome prediction .. but there ya go, Carl !

Expulsion events from AGNs seem much more likely .. don't know about containing that one, though.

.. But do we live in a false vacuum, anyway ?

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