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The End Of The World with Josh Clark

Physics Experiments

The End Of The World with Josh Clark

iHeartPodcasts

Technology, Science, Society & Culture

4.96.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Surprisingly the field of particle physics poses a handful of existential threats, not just for us humans, but for everything alive on Earth – and in some cases, the entire universe. Poking around on the frontier of scientific understanding has its risks.

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1:32.0

Manmade Black holes, blow energy vacuum bubbles, strange lids.

1:44.0

These are some of the ways that an ill-conceived physics experiment could pose an existential risk, not just for humanity but for all life on Earth and possibly for every atom in the universe if things go particularly badly.

2:01.0

Physics experiments seem like an unlikely place to find a clutch of existential risks.

2:07.0

But it makes sense really. There are no other branches of science that explores the places where something as magic as accidentally creating a tiny black hole could happen.

2:17.0

Physics is the purest branch of science. Back in the 30s, physicist Ernest Rutherford put it something like, all science is either physics or stamp collecting.

2:29.0

Physics, in particularly particle physics, is the place where the leading edge of science explores new frontiers of the universe. It's as literal as that.

2:40.0

But we are still at an early spot in our understanding of particle physics. In the place in human history where you and I live now, those forays by the leading edge of science are blind pokes in the dark.

2:53.0

And we face a dilemma because of this. We can't understand the universe without poking at it. But we can't really say if poking at it is safe until we poke it.

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