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If there's any possible way to corrupt spacetime, resulting in a sphere of destruction that expands outward at the speed of light, then maybe an accelerating un
by p1mrx 12y ago
If there's any possible way to corrupt spacetime, resulting in a sphere of destruction that expands outward at the speed of light, then maybe an accelerating universe could act as a firewall. What if we're here because the non-accelerating universes with intelligent life tend to get wiped out?
- fish2000 12y ago> corrupt spacetime Like (say) a vacuum metastability event? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastability_event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastabili...
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- dtbx 12y agoThere is a novel about that. "Schild's Ladder", by Greg Egan. But in that novel, the sphere of destruction expands only at c/2.
- stcredzero 12y agoIf it expanded at C, it would be a shorter book.