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In article <Nov.4.13.31.48.1992.25862@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes...
> 
>Cosmic rays up to 20 TeV are whacking into the atmosphere even as we
>speak, and I haven't seen any inflationary bubbles or domain walls
>recently.  Except after I have a few beers.

It's much better than that, even.  Cosmic rays have been detected out to
10^20 - 10^21 eV (That's 10^8 -10^9 TeV, folks).  The odds that *we* would
create a situation not previously attained my a cosmic ray event is
awesomely small - at least not without a breakthrough in accelerator 
technology.  

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.

And the neat thing is that it could happen at any time.  You folks might
cease to exist before you ever read this post.  Farewell (just in case).

-Scott
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Scott I. Chase			"It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV		 although I have no right to say so, having
				 been a single cell so long ago myself that I 
				 have no memory at all of that stage of my 
				 life." - Lewis Thomas