Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!

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From: Benjamin Weiner
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 23:44

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sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
>Another small thing to keep you up at night:  What if a mechanism analogous
>to electoweak symmetry breaking is eventually going to break the remaining
>electromagnetic symmetry?  As the Universe continues to cool, it might
>reach a point when it freezes out into a state in which the photon has mass.
>(Just like the W and Z have mass right now.) What if the range of the 
>electromagnetic interaction became .01 meters all of a sudden?  My nervous
>system might fail.  Heck - atoms might not be stable.  I'm not sure.

Uh, if this was going to happen, why wouldn't it have already happened
in some very cold spot?  Like the low temperature lab next door.
Waitaminnit ... [ fwooshh!!!! ]

Seriously, doesn't SSB usually occur when any old spot cools below
the symmetry-restoring temperature?

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From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
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Subject: Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!
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