Liu's book conveniently assumed that sufficient mastery of physics (if your atom-smashers are not sabotaged by even more convenient subatomic-sized enemies) provides an easy, cheap, totally anonymous way to blow up the star of your hapless innocent victims.
We haven't seen a lot of stars blowing up billions of years before they reach that part of their stellar sequence, so that probably isn't happening. Especially since the convenient genocide technology probably won't show up at all.
If travelling to stars is difficult, then projecting huge amounts of force that far - invisibly - is much more so.
I’m currently in a game theory class so this was very timely for me. Cool read!
Cool! I have a passing familiarity at best. I would love to hear about your class from you (or read about it on your substack!).
I have a game theory project due in a few weeks time so it is likely you'll see it on here soon!
Liu's book conveniently assumed that sufficient mastery of physics (if your atom-smashers are not sabotaged by even more convenient subatomic-sized enemies) provides an easy, cheap, totally anonymous way to blow up the star of your hapless innocent victims.
We haven't seen a lot of stars blowing up billions of years before they reach that part of their stellar sequence, so that probably isn't happening. Especially since the convenient genocide technology probably won't show up at all.
If travelling to stars is difficult, then projecting huge amounts of force that far - invisibly - is much more so.