Are we encountering an age that has too much access to news media? The rate at which
‘groundbreaking’ news is released to the public is dramatically increasing as people become more
internet savvy, and there are fewer walls to hide secrets behind. Congressmen are resigning for events before anything has even reached the public because they know that internet sources will find out. Revolutions are enabled through the media. Essentially, the news of tomorrow is happening today. As a result, will news-media soon
collapse inwards upon itself? Astrophysicist
J. Richard Gott III from Princeton University reassures as that this impossible. He states that “For the news to outrun the event is an impossibility in this universe, he says. That's because of the ‘Planck time’ — the smallest measurement of time possible, in quantum physics terms — that would occur between events.” The news will never be able to predate an event. Thus, the news will never replace actual events and the world will not implode on the basis of news becoming events. Take a deep breath and let out a comforted sigh.
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