(urth) Hard SF
Gerry Quinn
gerry at bindweed.com
Thu Nov 29 13:55:32 PST 2012
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
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