Does Science have the ability to destroy the world?

[BeyondET]

I have heard that Science has the ability to destroy mankind.

As for the title no, as for the post yes.

 

[timewerx]

The warp drive tech at the performance levels we see in Star Trek if ever invented could literally blow up planets.

The performance level of fictional warp drives in Star Trek reproduces conditions at the "Event Horizon" of a black hole.

If you activate it at ground level, enough matter will be sucked in that when you turn it off, that matter instantly "evaporates" via Hawking Radiation, converting all that matter into energy as efficiently as an antimatter bomb.

If you can turn its warp fields into a beam then you can create a beam weapon with unlimited destruction that can blow up planets.

Alternately, you can also make a planet-destroying bomb using warp drive tech.

The writers of that fiction never mentioned this in Star Trek, (I think) but it would explain why their shield tech is based on "gravitons" which can effectively protect against such types of weapons but if their shields have been disabled or greatly weakened, such weapon can destroy their ships in just one shot, not even ablative armor can protect it.

 

[AV1611VET]

If you can turn its warp fields into a beam then you can create a beam weapon with unlimited destruction that can blow up planets.

The planet killer from Star Trek episode: The Doomsday Machine.

 

[timewerx]

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The planet killer from Star Trek episode: The Doomsday Machine.

They managed to make it look scary. In those times, it is scary.

Another idea I have to destroy planets or even stars - if it is possible to completely block gravity. Scientists will tell you this is outright impossible because gravity is a property of space-time and inextricably linked to it. However, I have doubts on the sentiment because gravity waves don't travel at infinite speed but still limited by the speed of light.

But if it is possible, you're not just blocking the Earth's gravity but the gravity of the entire universe or approximately "half" of it. but even just a half a universe, if you managed to get yourself to the very edge of the Universe, the gravity you'll be subjected to would be equivalent to the Event Horizon of a black hole.

But by completely blocking gravity, you have replicated the conditions at the very edge of the universe. It may be the key to "folding" space-time. Traversing vast distances in an instant.

Ironically, the technology may also trigger the collapse of a planet or even a star into a black hole or cause something with a smaller mass like a moon or a portion of the planet to explode with the yield of an anti-matter bomb.

I believe the tech exists in Star Trek with the shield tech. They do have a much of tech in there the writers have "failed" to exploit but not entirely. At least the "Q" entities know how to use the deflector dish to fold space-time. But never demonstrated its utility as a planet or even star-killing weapon.

Stuff in Star Trek have tendency to become reality. It will become a real problem if some nation invents the warp drive first and realizes its planet-killing potential - or tactically, wiping out whole fleets of ships or armies with a simple beam without radioactivity nor toxic after-effects. The perfect weapon of mass destruction.