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Super Weapons

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The False Vacuum of Reality

Vacuum energy is the basic constant of vacuum energy or zero point energy. If you could shut that off or suppress it you would then have a true vacuum and potentially an expanding collapse of the false vacuum. The ability to send one single atom back in time or crush one plank value of space can potentially delete entire civilizations or entire superclusters if you managed to hit early enough back during or before the inflationary epoch moments after the big bang. A star slowly taking up half the value it used to is going to blow itself to bits too ripping space time up or increasing the rate of dark energy possibly setting off a big rip scenario locally or universe wide all qualify as super weapons.

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