So who's ready for the world to end Wednesday!

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The Ghost of RubangB said:

BenKenobi88 said:

twesterm said:
Actually, there's a much scary/interesting possibility than what's mentioned in that article (though the chance is much smaller and they aren't even sure if these things exist).

There's a theoretical type of matter (sticky matter maybe? I'm drawing a blank on the name) that when it touches any other kind of matter it instantly converts that matter to sticky matter and that bit of sticky matter converts all other matter it touches and so on. Some scientists say that this thing could possibly make some of that matter so the universe would be blinked out in an instant according to them.

They're called strangelets, and they're like...beyond theoretical. It's like one guy just said, "What if there are things called strangelets, and they could convert everything else to stranglets? Think about that one..."

 

I heard about that junk, but it was called "grey goo."

Have you guys read Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut? It has a similar substance, ice-9, but it only does it to liquids, so it only kills a whole planet, not the entire universe.

 

Anyway, we already know what's gonna happen:

 

 

 

 

 

I love Cat's Cradle. Actually ice-9 is one of my other screen names.