From Stephen Baxter
Great Missenden, Bucks
I was intrigued by your article on the Universe-trashing dangers of
high-energy physics
(28 August, p 24).
It’s a remarkable thought that by
exploring such extremes of the envelope of reality, physicists may be able to
engineer matter and space-time into forms never before attained in all the
Universe’s long history, forms that may be implicit in the laws of physics, but
unexpressed in nature.
Perhaps nature has been waiting for someone like us to come along. In my
recent novel Time, I’ve explored the question of our responsibility as
(presumably) the first intelligent species. What if it’s our “duty” to alter the
evolution of the universe by initiating quantum vacuum collapse?
