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From: john@frog.UUCP (Jack Armstrong)
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Subject: Re: What's All This, Then (Workshop on Exploding Particle Accelerators)
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 17:06:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 17:06:36 1986
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> >The current issue of Smithsonian has a guest column on modern-day worries
> >by Richard Wolkomir.  The author picks up a nasty new macroworry:
> >	...physicists Piet Hut and Martin J. Rees, of the Institute
> >	for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, have dreamed
> >	up a beauty.  They have a notion that new particle accelerators
> >	may create subatomic collisions intense enough to trigger a
> >	chain reaction and thus vaporize the entire Universe!
> . . .
> 
> I think though, that if this were a real possibility, the cosmic rays (or 
> intelligent beings on another planet) would have wiped us out by now.
> 
Good idea!  I'll let my alien masters know at once!

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