How Much We are Doomed
Basic Physics vs Renormalization Economics
I’m not going to tell you why we’re doomed. That’s pretty simple and subjective, but anyone can see that the reason why we are doomed is “because humans are stupid and selfish”. Clever, yes, but stupid nonetheless. “Clever will substitute for intelligence for a time, then you die.” -Lord Vetinari, “Making Money” by Terry Pratchett
This is a math story (you don’t have to solve it because natural forces will do that for you). Ergo, it’s a “math story” not the dreaded “math story problem.”
Author’s note: If you’re pressed for time and want to skip the prelude and get to the depressing meat of this story, then scroll down to the tractor picture.
Once upon a time, there was a planet. It had lots of minerals and water and various objects crashing into it from space.
Life began, we died. The end.
Just kidding, ha ha.
Life began from the simple activity of random things getting stuck together by electric charges (valence numbers, complex compounds, et cetera, et cetera), and the charges that stayed stuck together even after being bounced and drowned and hit by lightning managed to fall into the right place at the right time, and their charges made mirror charges of themselves. Those mirror patterns re-mirrored…
