Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!cuae2!ltuxa!we53!busch!wucs!slu70!guy From: guy@slu70.UUCP (Guy M. Smith) Newsgroups: net.physics,net.sci Subject: Re: What's All This, Then (Workshop on Exploding Particle Accelerators) Message-ID: <155@slu70.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 13:44:06 EST Article-I.D.: slu70.155 Posted: Tue Feb 11 13:44:06 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 01:39:12 EST References: <572@hounx.UUCP> <793@lasspvax.UUCP> Organization: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO Lines: 10 Xref: watmath net.physics:3850 net.sci:527 In article <793@lasspvax.UUCP>, langer@lasspvax.UUCP (Stephen Langer) writes: > I've heard of a theory that the universe is really in a metastable state > and that some low temp experiment might someday reach a temperature > low enough to initiate the phase transition to the universe's > true ground state. Fortunately, you don't have to worry about anything -- > the phase boundary will propagate at the speed of light so > you won't see it coming. :-) > -- Some people would make a case that we're already so degenerate that we won't even notice:-).