Now on ScienceBlogs: The Lights Stay On Inside a Black Hole!

Seed Media Group

Collective Imagination

Search

rss.jpg   Subscribe to RSS feed

Profile

davidog.pngDave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.) Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.


Recent Comments

Recent Posts

Other Information

The use of Occam's razor on this website is strickly prohibited.

Cows are well approximated by a sphere.
rss.jpg   Subscribe to RSS feed

« An Everything But Merger Act? | Main | Krugman: I'm For Math! »

Apocalypse Avoided

Category: Off The Deep EndPhysics
Posted on: September 10, 2009 2:32 PM, by Dave Bacon

Share:

As I discussed a few blog posts ago a serious hole in our apocalypse protection network was about to be compromised with the non-renewal of the website http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/. But it seems that Domenic has come to the rescue! See comment in the above blog post and the RSS feed update:

Domenic (a true fan of this site) was so distraught at the thought of missing out on further reassurances of the earth's continued existence that he's ponied up the registration cost for another year. So, we're not going anywhere after all.

1. The world has not ended. 2. The website is still going. Hence 3. Keeping the website going is what is keeping the world from ending. Err.

Share this: Stumbleupon Reddit Email + More

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/119647

Comments

1

I and likely others have suggested that because of "quantum suicide" (look that up), we will never experience the world being destroyed by the LHC as long as there is some chance the world survives. Why? Well, if MWI is true, then the few branches that survive "carry our consciousness" and only they can have us knowing what happened. So let's say LHC destroys 99.99% of multi-world branches, so what - the "yous" that survive will know they did and that's what "you" (ie, any of you) must experience! It's hard not to survive anything, you only need a tiny chance of getting through ...

I ridiculed this idea, with "quantum stupefaction": read about it at http://tyrannogenius.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-is-adapted-from-my-comments-to.html.

Posted by: Neil B ♪ | September 15, 2009 8:12 PM

2
1. The world has not ended. 2. The website is still going. Hence 3. Keeping the website going is what is keeping the world from ending. Err.

Of course! It's saving us all via the quantum Zeno effect!

Maybe we should try to persuade them to send more RSS updates though, just to be on the safe side.

Posted by: Joe Fitzsimons | September 15, 2009 8:48 PM

3

"Of course! It's saving us all via the quantum Zeno effect!"

I for one plan on using the quantum Zeno effect in the seconds right before I die.

Posted by: Dave Bacon | September 15, 2009 9:34 PM

4

Hmmmm.... If that worked, then we would never sleep, at least not when we are trying to stay awake.

Posted by: Joe Fitzsimons | September 16, 2009 1:26 PM

Post a Comment

(Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.)





ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Enter to win a free copy of The Monty Hall Problem
Visit the Collective Imagination blog
Advertisement
Collective Imagination

© 2006-2009 Seed Media Group LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Seed Media Group. All rights reserved.

Sites by Seed Media Group: Seed Media Group | ScienceBlogs | SEEDMAGAZINE.COM