From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!KFL@MIT-MC
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: End of universe?
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1023
Posted: Wed Apr 20 20:24:00 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 02:58:56 1983

From:  Keith F. Lynch <KFL @ MIT-MC>

  So physicists abolished the luminiferous ether only to replace it with
luminiferous nitroglycerine?
  We ceratinly have a ways to go before we rival the strongest cosmic rays
observed.  But someday we will get there.  Or perhaps we will manufacture
tiny black holes and accidentally drop one into the Earth...
  How much energy does this false vacuum supposedly have?  Might there be
some way to constructively tap that energy?
  Is there any known experiment which could determine of the neighborhood
vacuum is false or not?
  And lastly, if a false vacuum is so unstable, how could it get created
in the first place?
								...Keith