God Is a Terrorist In his novella, Dawn, Elie Wiesel wrote:
Elie said a mouthful there! Consider this: Terrorism is a tactic useful to those who do not, for whatever reason, intervene directly—micromanage—affairs of great importance to them. Terrorism is usually the tactic of choice of those who are deprived of sufficient resources to pursue their aims in more nuanced ways but who have the intelligence to understand how large systems are put together so they can take them apart with great economy. Now, you may argue that God has no such limitations—that He uses precisely the degree of force required to achieve His goals—but this seems manifestly at odds with the gross nature of Acts of God. Is God’s power in His understanding of Creation—exercised in the flap of a single butterfly’s wing more than His ability to directly intervene in our detailed affairs? Certainly, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. would seem to tell us “Yes!”. Likewise the terrorist who unleashes his “systempunkt” has little control over the details of the consequences he unleashes as part of his judgment. So, now that we have established that Fear of God is a direct result of God being a Terrorist (admittedly a loving a compassionate terrorist—as are most terrorists if you get on their good side) how might this manifest in these—The Last Days when God’s Judgment will purge the world by fire? Certainly there are more than enough people who have put everything on the line for this destruction of the world by fire, as is prophesied in the Bible. Indeed, it could be argued that the entire expense of the Iraq War has been due to just such beliefs in The End Time. It is currently up to, what? Nearly $1 Trillion. What if someone were to get a little—shall we say—impatient (so we’ll call him God’s Impatient Terrorist or GIT for short) for the unleashing of God’s Wrath? What is the minimum amount of money GIT would have to come up with to unleash something sufficiently Biblical to qualify as God’s destruction of the world by fire? It looks to me like it may cost no more than producing a relatively upscale indy movie... Consider this:
So what? Where is this GIT character going to come up with 10^19g of methane, let alone detonate it? Well let’s break this question down into two parts: 1) He gets it from ocean-dissolved methane (op. cit.):
2) Now comes the “hard” part. He detonates it by floating a tanker ship of liquid chlorine over a field of methane-hydrate and sinking it to the bottom, along with a bunch of spark generators. BOOM! But, oh…. that’s not nearly enough oxidizer to deflagrate, let alone detonate, 10^19 g of methane is it? It will only burn about as much methane as there was chlorine in the tanker. Gosh, maybe this wasn’t so Biblical after all… Wait…. What’s that shaking? An echo from the chlorine methane detonation? For those of you familiar with the “fizzie” description of the Mt. St. Helens eruption, what comes next may not be too much of a surprise. The combination of heat, shock and bubbles rising to the surface in a column over the methane-hydrate field puts this meta-stable system into an excursion releasing its huge potential energy—not in a detonation (at least not just yet), but—in a giant fountain similar to what happens when you shake a carbonated drink bottle up and then open it’s top. Then GIT will, for the mere price of a renting a filled chlorine tanker and some small pyrotechnics, have his Biblical destruction of the world by fire: An epic spray of methane gas surges to the sky—but weighed down by mist it settles close to the surface of the ocean and spreads out rapidly to mix with air. And now we start seeing where GIT is heading with his Biblical terrorism (op. cit.):
Now, the question becomes: How many people are kind of, uh, disappointed that at the turn of the millennium Jesus didn’t come on a cloud to take them away from all this—how shall I say it—enrichment and how much money do some of them have left to—uh—donate?
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Posted by James Bowery on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:36 | #
Although this may not have been the appropriate venue, I was rather hoping someone would debunk the previously presented thought experiment.
I’ll put it this way:
The “downside potential” of this scenario is so great that I’d like to see a very wide margin of safety between it and reality. 5 sigma or so.