(urth) Hard SF

[Gerry Quinn]

From: David Duffy

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > And there’s the kind where the writer takes some dubious physics theory
> > and extrapolates wildly based on that (e.g. Schild’s Ladder by Greg
> > Egan).

> I don't know what's going on with you people.  First someone calls Kim
> Stanley Robinson boring, and now Gerry's making out quantum loop gravity
> is dubious.  Didn't you read Egan's paper?

> http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0208010.pdf

Well, it has fallen out of favour as far as I know!

But by 'dubious' I meant 'unlikely to be correct'.  Even if the vacuum is 
metastable, it's (fortunately) unlikely that we could destabilise it by 
experiment.

- Gerry Quinn