The old "It's just a theory" talking point? The usual response to that was this. "Yeah, and so is the 'theory' of gravity just a theory, go ahead, please jump off a cliff. But don't take the whole planet with you." Why not just stuff the whole planet into a black hole? Where all the laws of physics are really different. The information component of human reality would persist forever, the mean reality of gravity, climate change, national bankruptcy, and so forth would be squashed out of existence.    more »