No mention of the other real problem with space elevators that as soon as you pull down on the cable to lift something you accelerate the mass at the end so it speeds up in its orbit?
This was a good interview. Well measured temperament. Made me almost burst in tears. Compassionate, educational, intelligent by all means. Reminded meeself, albeit with decimated knowledge, as adjunct lector and lab.responsibl'e (Telecom & Cable measurement) back in 1982 (aged 26 at the time). Back in 1982, Latvia, Rīgas Politehniskais Institūts, speciality 0708.
Five topics to fix society via discussion: -Anti-natalism vs Natalism -The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care. -Platinum rule Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same. -MBTI (research yours and connect with others) -Art (pick one and get better at it!)
@@deshaebeasley I also think the discussion of where does individualism start and end and to what capacity does societal needs outweigh ones individualism and autonomy. We have seen throughout history the greatest power of humans is our power collectively. Rome, Giza, The Forbidden City, the Vatican. While the means of construction were against these rules, the ability for a group of people to consistently put effort, beyond any 1 individuals lifespan, is something we have seen diminish over the centuries. What was once a project spanning 20 lifetimes is now 25 years of comparatively less labor.
What a great episode. This guy was so smart, great at communicating complicated stuff while not talking down to any question. Really cool guy, and dwarkesh is a beast for sure.
this content belongs on the highest branches of the "hyperdimensional" perk tree of the galaxy brain meme in the universe where dimensions are an outdated concept and podcasts are communicated using quantum encryption to prevent the spread of information hazards. Hope I'm still around and sufficiently upgraded to understand them!!
Someone want to explain this....I am still struggling with this. Call it shock or fear or what. But its hard to even vocalize. Why won't someone just explain.
How much can you get wrong in 5 minutes? 1:31:35 Apparently a lot. - Only did one pass over Nagasaki - The crew never got lost - "The third shot" was going to get dropped on Tokyo 11 days later, they had another - Again dropped on the first pass - They did not miss Nagasaki (How can anyway say that one?!) - They missed their planned aiming point (Not a strategic target, just the downtown) because of the clouds and once the clouds broke they aimed for a horse racing track between two factories that where labled as targets in their mission brief. Ground zero was within a few hundred feet of the track. - They were never going to be court-martialed. The pilot Charles Sweeney possibly (because of his decisions that caused the plane to be low on fuel) but none of the other crew, including the ones who dropped it. - Luis Alvarez was on a support plane for the Hiroshima mission not on the Enola Gay as implied here - Again dropped on first pass, there was no final run. - Doesn't really matter if they talked about dropping it or not, it didn't happen. Everyone in life has said "I'm going to xyz" and then when they go to do it think otherwise. No point in speculation on that. - "They should drop the bomb" Stanislav Petrov was supposed to relay the warning to a higher up, he was not in charge of the launch. Sounds like Adam went in with the idea already in his head that they weren't following orders. Why else twist this so much? 1:32:55 How can anyone think that? Let alone someone as well educated as Adam is.
Brown has a good head on his shoulders. His take on AI usage in physics (and in anything, really) is spot on. That's how it's done. Kudos, Dwarkesh. You do pick some of the most incredible guests.
Wow - what a phenomenal episode! It was incredibly thought provoking and full of fascinating insights ⭐ Some of Adam's observations made me feel like that bull rancher who didn't know what stars were - and that felt amazing!!! Thank you, Adam, for taking us on a brilliant 'mental hitchhiking' journey through your passion for physics and AI. You're an absolute legend, and I can't wait to hear more from you! 💙
In relation to the conversation being had at around 45:00, researchers just ended up finding out it's much easier to entangle particles than they had ever expected, and it was suggested by an LLM. They didn't ask it for a better method, it just suggested one. This isn't a full theory of everything, but their computer understood quantum entanglement on a level deeper than any human ever did.
ok, ignoring the good sirs 5 year scenario. Great discussion! I much appreciate Patel's more pragmatic and playful style as a minty fresh compliment to Brown's theoretical hardcore-mode character ^^ fun topics and fascinating insights although I might require a second listen to understand the physics parts a little better hahaha
I love this! Absolutely wonderful guest and great episode! One question🤔 rather than using a space elevator or rope couldn’t you use an elliptical orbit to scoop energy from black hole event Horizon???😅
You seem to be stating that phase transitions are possible given that sufficient state changes occur in various parts of the Universe. This seems very different than saying that the laws of physics can change.
What about if you included "floors" for the space elevator wire rope? Each floor only has to support its section of wire rope, thus the exponential growth required in the strength of the rope is disconnected at a point where the diameter exceeds practical limits. Each "floor" or platform only extends wire rope down to the next lower lever. Also, if the vehicle being lifted had some form of limited lift assist motor, wouldn't the stress on the rope be decreased?
Because they are language models not math models. They predict the next works based on incredibly accurate statistics which is the exact opposite of how math equations are solved.
Not to mention that if the cable broke away from the orbiter it would cause destruction halfway round the earth, and if it broke away from the anchor point there would be a flailing unpredictable wrecking ball causing all sorts of death and destruction.
I can't find anything out about Adam Brown or BlueShift by searching. He doesn't have a Google Scholar page, and he only has 6 publications on his google research page, none of which very important. Can't find linkedIn, or anything else really. Who is this dude?
Had a look, the google scholar page is not his, there are several researchers of the same name. He linked his Arxiv on his Stanford academia edu page, which list 42 papers, many published as the sole author (normal in theoretical physics), or with other reputable physicists. They are published in journals such as Phy. Rev. D and Phys. Rev. Letters mostly, which are reputable journals that you would expect to find his research in. So not as straightforward to find, but all seems ok, he just doesn't have much of an online presence outside of interviews and articles.
Would have been lovely to at least one or two thoughts that made him come to that answer haha he did however mention it is not definitely 5 years, just that he could imagine feasibility.
With quantum entanglement. Items bound have been proven to react instantly, and simultaneously, once its pair is effected. Regardless of distance. As such, you can quite easily develop a method of faster than light communication. You just cant move the entangled item itself faster than light. In theory you can have one entangled item on mars and another on earth and have instantaneous communication.
Slight change: in Schild’s Ladder, the characters aren’t intentionally trying to trigger vacuum decay. Also in Schild’s Ladder, the bubble expands into the parent universe as half the speed of light (very convenient for the plot, probably not as realistic)
Something that I don't get: The goal of changing the cosmological constant is to slow down the expansion of space so distant objects don't expand away from us too fast. Sure, but wouldn't that mean that the bubble of modified space we create would have to expand out faster than the speed of light to catch up with these receding galaxies?
Does churning Dark Energy make sense? like if it expands universe then does reducing the dark energy by converting into something else make sense? Isn't that earlier in tech tree than changing constants of physics?
Excellent interview. Question: (2:05:40) isn't the point that gravity is always making entropy increase as mass density increases because gravity makes extracting information more difficult? This fully manifests as information described by the area rather than boundary once a black hole is formed because the volume is fully inaccessible for the black hole? As soon as you have mass (the hard drive), gravity makes it more difficult to access the information, meaning that the amount of accessible information is reduced, so no longer fully described by the volume? So the only time volume actually accurately describes a region of space is when there is no energy density in that space?
The frontier of physics involves what are called charge clusters, exotic vacuum objects (EVOs), condensed plasmoids (Lutz Jaitner's term), plasmoid (Bostick)... fractal toroidal bundles of electrons that can strip electrons out of any other atom, causing baryon decay and inducing transmutation and other LENR effects
I am really interested in these vaccum states that he talks about in which the set of laws of physics can vary, but I really can't find anything about it. Does anyone know specific search terms I shouls use?
Is there new information on the dark energy issue? I heard it was possibly an illusion caused by the shape of the universe being irregular and not cylindrical or oblong like previously thought. Has this hypothesis not been proven? Honestly asking anyone who feels like answering.
2:30:42 - started down the extinction line and all I could think of was Rick Sanchez. None of the branches actually matter, losing one civilization doesn’t matter, loosing both and all civilization forever doesn’t matter. Everything is nothing. But then again, nothing is everything.
The thing I want to see AI applied to is the human genome. It's fantastic amounts of data and since that is what AI excel at (once learned) You would be able to go "find all the medical conditions that this person can prevent that he needs to be aware of" and Boom, you get a list. You'd revolutionize the medical industry.
What he is suggesting is pretty far out, but one way of thinking about it basically amounts to mastering General Relativity for technological applications (e.g. cosmological engineering?) in the same way we use our understanding of electromagnetism to make computers.
Dark energy is only a problem if we can't figure out how to use it ourselves (or how to create something like a mass effect field) to enable FTL travel
This guy is a better version of Neil Degrasse Tyson. I like that he doesn't dumb things down to kindergarden level. That way I can listen to the big words so I feel smart.
We may not have probable opportunity as per material science on earth and the rest of material in the universe to even make an experiment out of material to find space fabric.
He has a lot of confidence we're not going to wipe ourselves out or get blipped by an asteroid. Little bit of Occam's razor on this makes it a nice fantasy but all daydreaming in the wake of actual human interaction.
1:47:28 - space elevator moment from the short (yw)
Thanks!!
You saved me a solid 30minutes
Thank you buddy, doing the Lords work
Thanks man
No mention of the other real problem with space elevators that as soon as you pull down on the cable to lift something you accelerate the mass at the end so it speeds up in its orbit?
Adam Brown is a modern man who possesses old-school dignity and high class. A wonderful and super-intelligent presenter.
This was a good interview. Well measured temperament.
Made me almost burst in tears.
Compassionate, educational, intelligent by all means.
Reminded meeself, albeit with decimated knowledge, as adjunct lector and lab.responsibl'e (Telecom & Cable measurement) back in 1982 (aged 26 at the time).
Back in 1982, Latvia, Rīgas Politehniskais Institūts, speciality 0708.
@@IndulisBeisans I hope you did this in your own nation and language.
A far future society triggering vacuum decay events to create new universes to the avoid the heat death sounds like a great premise for a sci novel.
Greg Egan’s Schild’s Ladder is related: physicists trigger vacuum decay accidently and debate whether to try and stop it as it eats the universe
Five topics to fix society via discussion:
-Anti-natalism vs Natalism
-The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs
Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care.
-Platinum rule
Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same.
-MBTI (research yours and connect with others)
-Art (pick one and get better at it!)
Platinum rule 🥹🥹🥹❤
@@deshaebeasley I also think the discussion of where does individualism start and end and to what capacity does societal needs outweigh ones individualism and autonomy.
We have seen throughout history the greatest power of humans is our power collectively. Rome, Giza, The Forbidden City, the Vatican. While the means of construction were against these rules, the ability for a group of people to consistently put effort, beyond any 1 individuals lifespan, is something we have seen diminish over the centuries. What was once a project spanning 20 lifetimes is now 25 years of comparatively less labor.
@MAJ0ROCEL0T platinum rule covers that
dwarkesh coming out of the gate with super high energy. one wonders what they were just doing
Cocaine
I think that’s just how a sober powerful mind functions lol
What a great episode. This guy was so smart, great at communicating complicated stuff while not talking down to any question. Really cool guy, and dwarkesh is a beast for sure.
Except for his proclivity for the nose candy
Dwarkesh is spending those sweet sweet influencer dollars on some of that pure Peruvian marching powder clearly
?
@@everything777 he is saying the guy looks like he is in cocaine
@@everything777he means he’s diving his beak
He can't keep his hands off that nose 😂
He's on a certain drug....
Dwarkesh on Founder Mode 😤
this content belongs on the highest branches of the "hyperdimensional" perk tree of the galaxy brain meme in the universe where dimensions are an outdated concept and podcasts are communicated using quantum encryption to prevent the spread of information hazards. Hope I'm still around and sufficiently upgraded to understand them!!
Lovely snow this time of year ❄️🌨️⛷️
Someone want to explain this....I am still struggling with this. Call it shock or fear or what. But its hard to even vocalize. Why won't someone just explain.
@@Tylstronger💊❄️
@@Tylstrongerbecause the comment would be instantly deleted if someone named this thing
Nose candy. Google it
We all hitchhiked with this dude today
Love that, well said and great reference. My deference 😌
The only good comment so far.
Fascinating episode. Thanks for sharing a lot of deep insights on something beyond AI😅
6:57 Dwarkesh is on snow ❄️😅
Wow this guy is very interesting/learned a lot. Kudos to Google
I love listening to this type of educational content... my anxiety rises, but it's worth it. 😅
Wow what a fascinating conversation. My mind was blown countless times. My brain lacks the surface area for these topics though.
What a banger, Adam is a super interesting dude to the point where you barely talked to him about AI.
This was a really fun interview, Mr Brown was a charming guest.
For once, praise the algorithm! Wonderfully done.
I saw the space elevator clip on a short, and it brought me here. I subscribed to this refreshing, educational channel
How much can you get wrong in 5 minutes? 1:31:35 Apparently a lot.
- Only did one pass over Nagasaki
- The crew never got lost
- "The third shot" was going to get dropped on Tokyo 11 days later, they had another
- Again dropped on the first pass
- They did not miss Nagasaki (How can anyway say that one?!)
- They missed their planned aiming point (Not a strategic target, just the downtown) because of the clouds and once the clouds broke they aimed for a horse racing track between two factories that where labled as targets in their mission brief. Ground zero was within a few hundred feet of the track.
- They were never going to be court-martialed. The pilot Charles Sweeney possibly (because of his decisions that caused the plane to be low on fuel) but none of the other crew, including the ones who dropped it.
- Luis Alvarez was on a support plane for the Hiroshima mission not on the Enola Gay as implied here
- Again dropped on first pass, there was no final run.
- Doesn't really matter if they talked about dropping it or not, it didn't happen. Everyone in life has said "I'm going to xyz" and then when they go to do it think otherwise. No point in speculation on that.
- "They should drop the bomb" Stanislav Petrov was supposed to relay the warning to a higher up, he was not in charge of the launch.
Sounds like Adam went in with the idea already in his head that they weren't following orders. Why else twist this so much? 1:32:55 How can anyone think that? Let alone someone as well educated as Adam is.
Yeah i don't know why would he even talk about the nuking of nagasaki, he is not a historian
Their original spot, Kokura, was 235km from Nagasaki. So, not very close.
However, Nagasaki was a pre-planned secondary target.
Exceptional content. This podcast keeps getting better...
Not for long. He's obviously getting too heavy into the cocaine.
Brown has a good head on his shoulders. His take on AI usage in physics (and in anything, really) is spot on. That's how it's done. Kudos, Dwarkesh. You do pick some of the most incredible guests.
Amazing interview! Thanks 🙏
I can listen to this guy all day
Appreciate the discussion on the quantum multiverse.
I can feel this is going to be great from the intro
Agreed
You finished ?
@@enzoalec5764 honestly yes... but i feel like i didn't because couldn't understand some of the stuff
@ yeah most of them where random therios for the poor physicist i am 🥲
Wow - what a phenomenal episode!
It was incredibly thought provoking and full of fascinating insights ⭐
Some of Adam's observations made me feel like that bull rancher who didn't know what stars were - and that felt amazing!!!
Thank you, Adam, for taking us on a brilliant 'mental hitchhiking' journey through your passion for physics and AI.
You're an absolute legend, and I can't wait to hear more from you! 💙
Thank you also
Adam's hair and outfit needs its own flashback sitcom! Sweet.
Wow a sitcom based in Oxford Physics department is a great idea 😂🙏🏻
This Christmas present sweeps. No contest.
I see Vaclav Smil on your bookshelf 👀 You should try to get him on!
Yoooo it's hoser
1:42:19 "in love with their own theories" let that sink in
In relation to the conversation being had at around 45:00, researchers just ended up finding out it's much easier to entangle particles than they had ever expected, and it was suggested by an LLM. They didn't ask it for a better method, it just suggested one.
This isn't a full theory of everything, but their computer understood quantum entanglement on a level deeper than any human ever did.
My fav podcast unbaised and straight to the point
And in depth tech and science podcast
Love you bro❤❤
I love this content. Fascinating discussion. DWARKESH IS THE MAN.
The coke man
ok, ignoring the good sirs 5 year scenario. Great discussion! I much appreciate Patel's more pragmatic and playful style as a minty fresh compliment to Brown's theoretical hardcore-mode character ^^ fun topics and fascinating insights although I might require a second listen to understand the physics parts a little better hahaha
Learned a lot. Thank you both!
I love this! Absolutely wonderful guest and great episode! One question🤔 rather than using a space elevator or rope couldn’t you use an elliptical orbit to scoop energy from black hole event Horizon???😅
You seem to be stating that phase transitions are possible given that sufficient state changes occur in various parts of the Universe. This seems very different than saying that the laws of physics can change.
What's the time stamp for the space elevator?
1:48:00
Happy New Year to both of you 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Please have someone on about mesoscale tech, metamaterials, and nanorobotics/nanocomputational limits.
What about if you included "floors" for the space elevator wire rope? Each floor only has to support its section of wire rope, thus the exponential growth required in the strength of the rope is disconnected at a point where the diameter exceeds practical limits. Each "floor" or platform only extends wire rope down to the next lower lever. Also, if the vehicle being lifted had some form of limited lift assist motor, wouldn't the stress on the rope be decreased?
Beard dude touches his nose so much you would die of alcohol poisoning if you played a drinking game with that.
Apart from that, great interview!
The interesting thing is that LLMs are good at describing very advanced physics but struggle when asking them to solve advanced physics equations.
Because they are language models not math models. They predict the next works based on incredibly accurate statistics which is the exact opposite of how math equations are solved.
Not to mention that if the cable broke away from the orbiter it would cause destruction halfway round the earth, and if it broke away from the anchor point there would be a flailing unpredictable wrecking ball causing all sorts of death and destruction.
Its a hour in and I am already scared of any quantum fluctuations making a vacuum bubble in my bedroom.
I checked under your bed and there are no vacuum bubbles under there, so don't worry.
If it helps you won't have any warning because it would be moving at the speed of light.
Then you're dumb
Why scared if it happens nothing you can do about it, and if it doesn't, then nothing happens
I’m now torn between this episode and history with Dr Askell. Though I’ve watched that episode with her about four times so far 😅
I can't find anything out about Adam Brown or BlueShift by searching. He doesn't have a Google Scholar page, and he only has 6 publications on his google research page, none of which very important. Can't find linkedIn, or anything else really. Who is this dude?
He published many papers with heavy-weights such as Leny Susskind or Geoff Pennington.
Many of the best researchers don't want to be in the spot light, as it distracts from their work.
He's clearly from a differently vacuumed cosmos.
Academia has unfortunately become an inhospitable environment for brilliant people with bold ideas.
Like half of Dwarkesh's guests have fled academia.
Had a look, the google scholar page is not his, there are several researchers of the same name. He linked his Arxiv on his Stanford academia edu page, which list 42 papers, many published as the sole author (normal in theoretical physics), or with other reputable physicists. They are published in journals such as Phy. Rev. D and Phys. Rev. Letters mostly, which are reputable journals that you would expect to find his research in. So not as straightforward to find, but all seems ok, he just doesn't have much of an online presence outside of interviews and articles.
love this vid!!!
5 years to ASI is insane.
Would have been lovely to at least one or two thoughts that made him come to that answer haha he did however mention it is not definitely 5 years, just that he could imagine feasibility.
Nice thank you!
My favorite new channel discovery of 2024.
2024¿
0:20 I’m sorry these intros have got to go just start the episode
With quantum entanglement. Items bound have been proven to react instantly, and simultaneously, once its pair is effected. Regardless of distance. As such, you can quite easily develop a method of faster than light communication. You just cant move the entangled item itself faster than light. In theory you can have one entangled item on mars and another on earth and have instantaneous communication.
Guy's out here trying to manifest the plot of Schild's Ladder
Slight change: in Schild’s Ladder, the characters aren’t intentionally trying to trigger vacuum decay. Also in Schild’s Ladder, the bubble expands into the parent universe as half the speed of light (very convenient for the plot, probably not as realistic)
Something that I don't get: The goal of changing the cosmological constant is to slow down the expansion of space so distant objects don't expand away from us too fast. Sure, but wouldn't that mean that the bubble of modified space we create would have to expand out faster than the speed of light to catch up with these receding galaxies?
Does churning Dark Energy make sense? like if it expands universe then does reducing the dark energy by converting into something else make sense? Isn't that earlier in tech tree than changing constants of physics?
The one thing that totally demolishes simulation theory. How does energy fabric dance on space fabric in the Large hadron collider?
Excellent interview. Question: (2:05:40) isn't the point that gravity is always making entropy increase as mass density increases because gravity makes extracting information more difficult? This fully manifests as information described by the area rather than boundary once a black hole is formed because the volume is fully inaccessible for the black hole? As soon as you have mass (the hard drive), gravity makes it more difficult to access the information, meaning that the amount of accessible information is reduced, so no longer fully described by the volume? So the only time volume actually accurately describes a region of space is when there is no energy density in that space?
This podcaster is lit 🤪 😂 hahaha 7:43
yet another classic
Did he just say we could potentially get super intelligence in 5 years? 🤯
Does anyone have video recommendations for people talking about controlled vacuum decay?
A bubble or a vacuum sounds a lot like a Markov blanket.
This is my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch character!
this guy talks amazingly
I legit thought I had the playback speed higher than normal when the interview began.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Wow, this is so much better to listen to this without background "music". WHY WHY would you add it to the short!!?
The frontier of physics involves what are called charge clusters, exotic vacuum objects (EVOs), condensed plasmoids (Lutz Jaitner's term), plasmoid (Bostick)... fractal toroidal bundles of electrons that can strip electrons out of any other atom, causing baryon decay and inducing transmutation and other LENR effects
That all sounds very interesting. Where are you getting this from?
He mentioned LENR so it's probably quack stuff.
I am really interested in these vaccum states that he talks about in which the set of laws of physics can vary, but I really can't find anything about it. Does anyone know specific search terms I shouls use?
The second law of thermodynamics holds even in a non-expanding universe. We’ll run out of usable energy whether the universe is expanding or not
Eventually the universe fills with black holes equidistant from each other then all implode and another big bang begins
Chris Addison's character from Lab Rats really managed to get his shiz together.
Is there new information on the dark energy issue? I heard it was possibly an illusion caused by the shape of the universe being irregular and not cylindrical or oblong like previously thought. Has this hypothesis not been proven? Honestly asking anyone who feels like answering.
Keshaa what are you High on before starting today's podcast???
Dang. 😮 Adam speaks 2 Fast and looks 2 Furious.... Wowzers
First time I've slowed a video down
I think he means 235 isotopes intead of 238 isotopes(Urainium 235 intead of 238)
what timecode in the interview is this ?
Watching it further, Dwarkesh did this come out before or after OpenAI announced o3??
filmed and out after
My 2 favourite podcasters- Lex Fridman and Dwarkesh Patel
Are black holes lossless or lossy compressors?
45:12 "notation as a tool of thought"
2:30:42 - started down the extinction line and all I could think of was Rick Sanchez. None of the branches actually matter, losing one civilization doesn’t matter, loosing both and all civilization forever doesn’t matter. Everything is nothing. But then again, nothing is everything.
The LLMs don’t read. It looks at patterns based on tokens given to words.
How much rocket fuel could you buy for the cost of one space elevator?
The thing I want to see AI applied to is the human genome. It's fantastic amounts of data and since that is what AI excel at (once learned) You would be able to go "find all the medical conditions that this person can prevent that he needs to be aware of" and Boom, you get a list. You'd revolutionize the medical industry.
That beard, no patches ❤😅, wee bit jealous
What he is suggesting is pretty far out, but one way of thinking about it basically amounts to mastering General Relativity for technological applications (e.g. cosmological engineering?) in the same way we use our understanding of electromagnetism to make computers.
Adam Brown looks and sounds like one of the the guys from pantheon
For all we know earlier civilizations already did this and we are here as a result ...
Ngl the interviewer made me a bit uncomfortable 😅 but this interview was great 👍🏾
Dark energy is only a problem if we can't figure out how to use it ourselves (or how to create something like a mass effect field) to enable FTL travel
Dwarkesh, have you considered interviewing Stephen Wolfram?
I have not found Wolfram’s work to be very interesting, he’s stuck in an intellectual local minimum of cellular automata and hypergraphs
It’s Battle Mountain Nevada
This guy is a better version of Neil Degrasse Tyson. I like that he doesn't dumb things down to kindergarden level. That way I can listen to the big words so I feel smart.
We may not have probable opportunity as per material science on earth and the rest of material in the universe to even make an experiment out of material to find space fabric.
He has a lot of confidence we're not going to wipe ourselves out or get blipped by an asteroid. Little bit of Occam's razor on this makes it a nice fantasy but all daydreaming in the wake of actual human interaction.
beautiful fairies of physics
Why does he think it’ll take sometime in the next century to produce a nanotube cable as long as we want?