Adam Brown

You'd have to do that in a very careful way, both to make sure that you didn't, you know, accidentally make a black hole instead by the time you concentrated all those energies, and also, you know, worse than making a black hole would be ending up in a vacuum that you didn't want to end up in, would be ending up in a vacuum in which you had not only bled off the cosmological constant in some way, but that you had changed, let's say, the electromagnetic constant or the strong...

nuclear force or the any of these other forces which would be seriously bad news because if you did that you know your your life uh as you know it uh is extremely well attuned to the value of the electromagnetic constant in your evolutionary environment it will be very very bad indeed if we changed those constants as well but we'd really just try and target the cosmological constant and nothing else and that would require a lot of engineering prowess

It's like somebody could do it on some planet in the middle of... I'd say it's definitely substantially harder than Dyson spheres as far as the tech tree goes.

But it's not...

Yeah.

What do we mean by changing the laws of physics?

Like, that just sounds like magic.

We're not actually changing the laws of physics.

We're just changing the laws of physics, the sort of low energy laws of physics as they present to us in this scenario.

Again, this is speculative, but it's not like super duper crazy.

It's a natural consequence of our best theories of, or at least some of our best theories of quantum gravity that they allow for this possibility.

And...

There is a meta-law of physics, the true laws of physics, be it string theory or whatever else, that you're not changing.

That's just the rules of the game.

What I'm describing is changing the...

the way that the universe looks around you, changing the cosmological constant.

So I think, again, changing water vapor into water is a great analogy here.

There's nothing actually... The laws of physics are still the laws of physics, but the way it feels to live in that universe, the value of the electromagnetic constant is perhaps not an absolute fixed value.

It can...

vary in different places.