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...fracturing atoms into smaller and smaller parts, may create one of three exotic yet dangerous possibilities. The first option is a strangelet, a small particle that makes other atoms strangelets until it “eventually [converts] all of Earth into a single larger ‘strangelet?? of huge size.” If you don’t like the prospect of being turned into exotic atomic material without your consent, then perhaps you should consider what’s behind door number two: magnetic monopoles, which “catalyze the decay of protons...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: The Big Bang | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

Posner argues that his background as a lawyer and an economist need not disqualify him from opining on the “strangelet?? question. Fifty pages of footnotes attest to the fact that Posner is no scientific dilettante. But is he an alarmist...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The End of the World As We Know It? | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Posner argues that his background as a lawyer and an economist need not disqualify him from opining on the “strangelet?? question. Fifty pages of footnotes attest to the fact that Posner is no scientific dilettante. But is he an alarmist...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The End of the World As We Know It? | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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