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Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Brown | A Theoretical Physicist's Take on the Future

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The Problem With Muon Catalyzed Fusion

There's plenty of possibilities for the laws of physics to be extremely friendly from what are we considered to be an engineering perspective consistent with everything we know. There'll be huge numbers of technologies that will be unlocked by those perfectly plausible discoveries from our past particle accelerators including perhaps you could make a bigger slider that would make an even bigger go to reach even higher energies and you could just bootstrap yourself all the way up to the to the Planck scale and beyond. But then there's so much that we don't know and so much thatWe can't control possibly but I take it you do seem optimistic about the future would you say that you are and if so like what got you there is

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