Think, Professor Eugenio, you lazy old brain-bag. This is easy
stuff for us: explain why it's a good choice to devote your life to
predicting and understanding how the leap of an itty bitty little
atominiscule from one lightwave to another, entirely skipping and never
occupying or passing through the space between, can open a a black hole,
a void, in the universe. An emptiness that, like a vacuum, will suck in
our entire solar system and destroy life as we know it. HA! What am I
saying, we don't even "know" our universe. So unpredictable and unstable
and unknowable. Oh we try. Heh, easy stuff...
But how can I
tell them this in good conscience without enciting a FRENZY? The chances
are incalculable - we just can't predict or prevent it. Ha ha. More
optimism from old Raybolt Eugenio. I mean, there's nothing can be done
so why worry, why try? Our actions are insignificant,
entirely...insignificant (spoken defeatedly).
Oh, that's rich
stuff. Here's what I want to say, "Why don't we all just walk out of
this lecture hall, grab a pint and say to heck with it all? Cheers to
the unknowable universe that I've spent my whole life studying and..."
oh no. No, no, what nonsense I'm talking. What to say, really?
Black
holes are a real threat in our present environmental climate. The
actions we take on earth can impact and accelerate atomic-level
interactions with infinitely cataclysmic consequences. You're here
because you've asked yourselves, as humans and scientists, what can we
do to prevent the advent of a quantum disaster?
Oh Hell, nothing. Black holes threaten our existence and yet our planet is but a speck in...uh...oh.
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