Bummer kids.
Buy short-dated paper.
From The Daily Mail, April 20:
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics has issued a stark warning to humanity, saying it could face an existential catastrophe within roughly 35 years.
David Gross, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, warned that 'due to the danger of nuclear war,' humankind may have just a little more than three decades left.
'Even after the Cold War ended, when we had strategic arms control treaties, all of which have disappeared, there were estimates that there was a one percent chance of nuclear war every year,' he told Live Science.
'I feel it's not a rigorous estimate that the chances are more likely two percent. So that's a one-in-50 chance every year.
'The expected lifetime, in the case of two percent per year, is about 35 years.'
The calculation is based on equations similar to those used to estimate the half-life of radioactive materials, which model the probability of an event occurring over time.
'Things have gotten so much worse in the last 30 years, as you can see every time you read the newspaper,' Gross added, pointing to renewed nuclear threats, the war in Europe, escalating tensions involving Iran and recent near-war conditions between India and Pakistan.
Gross won the Nobel Prize for discovering 'asymptotic freedom,' the idea that the strong nuclear force holding atoms together weakens as quarks, tiny subatomic particles, move closer together, much like a rubber band that tightens only when pulled apart.
In the interview with Live Science, Gross also highlighted that there have been no major nuclear arms-control treaties signed in the past 10 years.
'There are now nine nuclear powers. Even three is infinitely more complicated than two,' he said.
The last surviving US-Russia nuclear treaty expired on February 5, 2026.
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), signed in 2010, is due to end on February 5. It marks the eighth agreement between the two nations since the 1963 treaty that banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.
Gross also pointed to the rise of AI, which adds more risks to humanity's existence.
'The agreements, the norms between countries, are all falling apart,' he said.
'Weapons are getting crazier. Automation, and perhaps even AI, will be in control of those instruments pretty soon....
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The LiveScience article is headlined "'The chances of you living 50 years are very small': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won't survive to see all the forces unified" so I went with the more reserved Daily Mail.
