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Comment only record 1 in million "events" (Score 2) 85

The make a quick assessment whether a particle shower is interesting, then store it for future analysis. The four detector complexes have up to 10K subdetectors each, different directions and energies. Then you propose what a certain decay sequence might look like and sift the trillion recorded explosions.

For exeample there were several dozen possible decay paths for the Higgs, but only a handful were detectable in this setup. It took longer to analyze the data than run the machine.

Comment "Five Ages of the Universe" physics book (Score 1) 205

This 1990s book comes to a similar conclusion, but illustrates it with how life and intelligence might work. Baryons decay after 10^40 years. Black holes of every size evaporate by 10^100 years. There would be a near absolute sea of leptons remaining in the universe, some that might form positronium atoms the size of a current galaxy. A single bit of computation might take eons to effect in this scenario. (There may be a revision for new physics since the 1990s say the authors.)

Comment mean lifespan 1000 years from trauma, murders (Score 1) 692

If you were to eliminate all medical causes of death in current society. I counted 100 deaths per 100,000 per year from Wikipeadia death rate entry.
Would society become more cautious to lengthen life? Would society become more reckless beacuse life is so abundant then? I think it would stay right in the middle as now.

Comment bacteria less infectious than weaponized spores (Score 1) 67

They still require mucus surface or wound. And they may have been partially weakened by the ineffective sterialization procedure.
On the other hand spores, enhanced by a combined aerosol are mire effective infecting people. Apparantly fromthe 2001 incident, it takes a certain skill to do this.

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