Eu teria que ler o prefácio do livro - Starmus -para ver se é exatamente isso que ele diz; a tendência de interpretar palavras de cientistas como vaticínios alcança até a Hypecience (não confio) e a Nature.
Mas, "Most likely it will take 10 to the 100 years [a 1 followed by 100 zeroes] for this to happen, so probably you shouldn't sell your house and you should continue to pay your taxes," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, said during his lecture at the SETI Institute on Sept. 2. "On the other hand it may already happened, and the bubble might be on its way here now. And you won't know because it's going at the speed of light so there's not going to be any warning."
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