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Recently, the science fiction movie has become as dry and uninspired as the miserable futuristic landscape which serves as its inevitable setting. The Runnning Man, Terminator, and now Freejack all imagine an apocalyptic world which has been reduced, essentially, to a smoldering pile of ashes. Nuclear war and atmospheric decay are all in the cards and are all due to some form of human excess, be it greed or ambition...
...immediate consequence of this theory, as Georgi points out, is that the decay of protons is inevitable. Physicists have spent many years hoping to observe such an event, he says, but to date, they have not been able to detect any evidence of proton decay...
Despite the excitement generated at first by his theory, Georgi says that within ten years, it became clear that protons do not decay as fast as SU(5) theory predicts. By then, scientists had reached a consensus that the phenomenon of proton decay was a credible hypothesis, though difficult to confirm...
...Georgi says he remains hopeful that proton decay will be detected...
...proton decay is not much slower than the current bounds, it may still be seen, but it could be that we will never see it," he says. "That would close the one tiny experimental window on the world at these distances...