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Originally Posted by Neverfly
300,000 years eh?
So, the WORST most HORRIBLE case possible- If all our Physics which has so far been observed to be correct magically turns wrong somehow- We have 300,000 years to figure out what to do about it?
Sheesh! 
We're due for a Massive GRB at least 200,000 years PRIOR to that! |
If we were getting hammered by GRB's every 100,000 years, the hominid lineage would have gone extinct a long time ago, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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Is this your representation of his words?
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It's a paraphrase, but that's what he basically said (I think he used the word "arguments" instead of "debate"). It's toward the end of the lecture.
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I'm glad you are not in charge of my safety standards in my life. I'd be confined to a straight jacket and a padded room.
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Fortunately, you're not a threat to the planet.
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Which have yet to yield the high energy results necessary.
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Necessary for what? Warp drive or the next Nobel Prize?
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Not really.
No more than I think Relativity will be shown to be horribly wrong.
Is it possible? Of course.
Is it 1:1000- I really do not think so.
Warren Platts, You seem to be getting more and more hyperactive in your emphatic stance as these two threads progressed. 1:1000 that ALL KNOWN quantum Mechanics are Horribly Wrong?
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I never said ALL KNOWN quantum mechanics or relativity would have to be wrong in order for Giddings and Mangano's arguments to be wrong. (And Einstein must be wrong about GR in order for Hawking radiation to work--a hypothetical phenomenon that has yet to be observed, BTW). What will happen, assuming we don't get swallowed up immediately, is what usually happens: the edges of the theory get tidied up, some things get swept under the rug, and then new forms of
Dark Stuff are slathered over everthing in order to preserve the surface.