Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

Wouter Valentijn <liam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Forge wrote:
> > In article <atropos-0886EB.06150204042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> >> In article <MPG.225f49ad775a47b098990c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>  Forge <forge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In article <vfsec5-qku.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, spike1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> says...
> >>>> OK, look on the bright side...
> >>>> The sun might not explode/go nova...
> >>>> It might just go out...
> >>>> Or get mysteriously tele****ted to some distant corner
> >>>> of the universe by powerful aliens (because their sunlamp died)
> >>>
> >>> Suns with the mass that our sun has don't blow up and they
> >>> don't just go out.
> >>
> >> You obviously haven't watched enough Star Trek movies.
> >
> > Heh. Well, you might get a star like ours to blow up if you actually
> > blew it up, say, by messing with gravity or some other manipulation of
> > spacetime. But not with anything we can do with TODAY'S physics.
> 
> Or by somehow changing regular matter inside its core into anti-matter.

Or by the infinitely improbable event of all the particles in the sun
simultaneously deciding to be somewhere else - or at least enough of
them that it loses its grip on the planets.