Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics

Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by schmeckleberg on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:55PM (#30950801)

hypothesis: the Great Filter is that every sufficiently long-lived society eventually invents and uses the Deplorable Word from C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" universe.

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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by mountainboy on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:15PM (#30951477)

hypothesis: the great filter is simply an adequate understanding of physics. The galaxy (and beyond?) is happily chattering away using physics we do not understand. We are a pre-contact tribe in the jungle completely unaware of the "radio" signals passing all around us. Once we understand the principles, we can build such a radio and participate.

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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by kochikame on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:46AM (#30953407)

So "inadequate", not "adequate", right?

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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by thrtythreeforty on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:19AM (#30953570)

I for one look forward to chatting on ultrawave and being allied with the Transcend

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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by NateEag on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:31AM (#30956066)

Is this falsifiable?

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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by pantalaimon on Friday April 08, 2022 @06:37AM (#30955367)

But wasn’t that just a metaphor for the atomic bomb?

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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known... by NateEag on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:22AM (#30956001)

If so, it was a poor one - the Deplorable Word kills every single person on the planet but the speaker. Not a hint of MAD in sight.

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