Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihdev.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihdev!rastaman From: rastaman@ihdev.UUCP (Sid Bryozoan) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: What's All This, Then (Workshop on Exploding Particle Accelerators) Message-ID: <510@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 10:12:36 EST Article-I.D.: ihdev.510 Posted: Wed Feb 12 10:12:36 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 01:22:40 EST References: <572@hounx.UUCP> <139@epimass.UUCP> <624@frog.UUCP> Reply-To: rastaman@ihdev.UUCP (Sid Bryozoan) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 >> >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! No. Brooke says that her mom told her that's impossible. ihnp4!ihdev!rastaman "Stukas over Disney World ..."