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Why R isn’t the only ‘Doomsday number’

29 Jan 2021
Taken from the January 2021 issue of Physics World.

In this article (originally published in Lateral Thoughts, Physics World’s regular column of humorous and offbeat essays, puzzles, crosswords, quizzes and comics, which appears on the back page of the print edition) Peter Wright muses on how various Doomsday scenarios could be measured, by proposing a set of numbers that are as significant as R

Doomsday Clock 2020
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Peter Wright is a physicist now enjoying retirement after long careers in teaching and the NHS, e-mail petercw5@yahoo.co.uk
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