Here is your terrifying scare-of-the day. It was inspired by Nick Bostrom’s new book which does not go anywhere near this far.
In the context of LENR, it has been mentioned here that nickel-62 is a one-of-a-kind singularity in the periodic table. It is the most stable isotope in all of nature, with the highest binding energy per nucleon (8.8 MeV). Is this kind of stability a marker for another unique property? If a very expansive version of supersymmetry is found in nature, it could be possible that quantum dots of select pure isotopes can mimic not only a single atom of a different element, but can even mimic other basic particles, including perhaps the new one discovered at LHC of mass-energy 750 GeV. Google: superatom, if you have doubts that the first part of this proposition is feasible. The magic numbers for superatoms start at 13… and a quantum dot of 13 62Ni atoms would act as another particle in a strong version of supersymmetry. The most basic quantum dot of 62Ni does indeed have 13 atoms in an closely bound crystal. 62Ni is also bosonic. Now, imagine the 13 atom quantum dot made of the isotope nickel 62 as a condensate. It would have mass-energy of 751 GeV. Let’s assume that this particle has two potential identities – one being related to nickel and the other being the unexpected new particle discovered at the LHC, which can be described as the superset of the Higgs – 6 Higgs bosons in a unit of ~750 GeV mass-energy. Finally, how much of a stretch is it to propose using strong supersymmetry - that in cryogenic conditions in a multi-T magnetic field, the quantum dot BEC of nickel can transition into a new identity as the super-Higgs, possibly benefitting from ignition from a laser pulse to accomplish this transition… following which, it will decay in the same fashion as seen at LHC. There are major implications of that possibility, and that is the scare. A gram of 62Ni is about .016 moles and could contains about 10^19 quantum dots of the isotope. A closer estimate, which account for impurities and imperfections would be 10^17 quantum dots, and the energy of each one, if transitioned into the super Higgs would be 751 GeV each or about 7.5*10^28 eV total. Could that happen? Hope not, since its more than all the nukes in everyone’s arsenal. Could a gram of anything spell the end of everything… that is the big scare. If so, this outcome explains why some scientists believe that ALL technologically advanced civilizations eventually and inevitably self-annihilate once they reach a certain plateau … the proof of that uncomfortable realization being simply that there should be many such civilizations, but we know of none. The good news is that we do not have to worry about living in a Sim… … that would be because all the previous civilized societies have built large hadron colliders, found the super-Higgs, discovered superatoms and quantum dots… dissed cold fusion, and then… with history repeating itself over-and-over, the crazy cold-fusioneers have connected the dots to prove a painful point … … thereby eliminating all the pathoskeptics, for good J
