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Do you remember how a series of crazy coincidences and freak accidents kept preventing the LHC from being turned on? What if the LHC was causing world-ending or life-ending events, and we simply kept surviving only in thinner and thinner slices of amplitude (timelines) where those freak accidents happened, but where also more improbable world conditions took place?

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LHC is a pea shooter compared to the absolute ion cannons that are cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere, which are pea shooters compared to acretion disk collisions or particle collisions about a magnetar. Sorry to ruin the fun! :^)

Recreational beliefs are fun if you don't subject them to too much scrutiny.

It’s all fun and games till the Heisenberg Compensators break again.

The center of mass of these natural collisions is a huge Lorentz transformation away from Earth's center of mass, which could explain why some unwanted effects are harmless to us. To put a paranoid person at ease you'd need to go a bit further. It's all covered in detail here: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1111112?ln=en

Or we're in the timeline that survives because we maintain the LHC the best and it's needed for some crazy future experiment

Somewhere, a guy in a lab coat and with a microwave starts to laugh like a maniac.

I understood this reference!

There’s an SCP story like that.

World only survives, in realities where this particular creature in containment is alive. I’ll see if I can dig it up.

SCP-7000: The Loser https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7000

> Item: Sudden and wholesale collapse of all extant cryptocurrency markets.

> Reactive Action: None taken; event fully consistent with long-term probability models.

heh. love scp humor.

That is not the one.

But thanks for an hour-long break from work nevertheless.

SCP Wiki should itself be classified an Euclid-level threat (TV Tropes is obviously Keter class).

I think you meant SCP-3856: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3856

It was sophons.

You would see my YouTube feed. I watched a couple of those and now I'm fully convinced.

Sounds a bit like a doomed version of Quantum Immortality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...

Reminded me of this short story. You can only experience a life in which you are alive..

https://reactormag.com/divided-by-infinity/

This is a great idea. We'd slowly but surely end up in hell via a process pf reduced selection.

What an incredible read. Thank you for bringing this into my life - I think it’s going to be one that sticks with me.

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