Humanity may be accidentally hastening the end of the entire universe. Oops. To any and all other lifeforms out there in cosmos, sorry! Our bad! It all comes down to quantum mechanics and the bizarre fact that subatomic thingamabobs behave differently if someone is watching them. Especially those peeking at dark matter...
One can imagine physicists Laurel and Hardy: "Stanley?...Now look what you made me do!"
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3 comments:
Interesting idea but...
There are many billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars. Taking a staggeringly conservative estimate of one star in a trillion having a planet with intelligent life still leaves millions of planets with intelligent life.
To seriously believe that we might have been the first technological civilization to have measured dark matter seems, in my semi-humble opinion, to require an amusingly high level of hubris.
I have to agree, as interesting as the idea is, it is like time travel to kill your grampa or something equally unlikely....if it would have had that effect then it would have already happened, because there is no way that we could be first in this arena of scientific discovery
Yep, I'd have to agree with Wolfkahn: let's remove out heads from where the sun doesn't shine (but where there is plenty of dark matter) and not get too anthropic:-)
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