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Article #4065Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World!
From: Mcirvin
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 00:25
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 00:25
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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. The preprint mentioned earlier by Mary Crone and Marc Sher goes into this in some detail. It was eventually published in AJP-- I don't know what issue. (It was Mary's senior research project at William and Mary; she graduated the same year I did.) -- Matt McIrvin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc8!mcirvin From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Scientists Plan to Blow Up the World! Message-ID: <mcirvin.721009553@husc8> Date: 6 Nov 92 00:25:53 GMT Article-I.D.: husc8.mcirvin.721009553 References: <Bx0LAG.MnL@well.sf.ca.us> <Bx5qtw.Cvw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <Nov.4.13.31.48.1992.25862@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <4NOV199214241699@csa1.lbl.gov> Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: husc8.harvard.edu