22 Feb 13
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Originally posted by woodypusherI hope that suggested theory is false even through, very obviously, we wouldn't have to concern ourselves with it for a very long time if true.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57570097/higgs-boson-may-spell-doom-for-the-universe/
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Perhaps, If it is true, by the time the end is about to happen, we would have fingered out a way to hop safely into another universe? -that could be assuming an awful lot though.
22 Feb 13
Originally posted by woodypusherNot to worry. Captain Picard will fix any rupture in the spacetime continuum with a particle beam from the Enterprise's main deflector dish "simultaneously" in three different time periods.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57570097/higgs-boson-may-spell-doom-for-the-universe/
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And he'll do it for free because the Federation doesn't use money.
22 Feb 13
Originally posted by RJHindsSo you figure since you *know* the universe is 6000 years old, the reckoning must be about 6000 years in the future?
Sounds like Biblical prophecy on its way to fulfillment, except for the part about billions of years. But I doubt if you can trust these hugh time estimates. 😏
23 Feb 13
Originally posted by woodypusherI don't get this. Unless there's some effect from the matter sector there isn't any scope in the Standard Model for the Higgs for a fall into a lower energy state. If they mean that the (bare) Higgs potential is different from the standard model Higgs (the standard model Higgs has a single minimum - to fall into a lower stable vacuum you need a potential with more minima) that's fine, but it's not the standard model.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57570097/higgs-boson-may-spell-doom-for-the-universe/
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25 Feb 13
Originally posted by humyWe've always been doomed, though. Fates to choose from at the Cosmology Buffet:
I hope that suggested theory is false even through, very obviously, we wouldn't have to concern ourselves with it for a very long time if true.
Perhaps, If it is true, by the time the end is about to happen, we would have fingered out a way to hop safely into another universe? -that could be assuming an awful lot though.
1) The universe ends in fire with a Big Crunch.
2) The universe ends in ice by expanding forever, but decelerating whilst asymptotically approaching the entropic state of "heat death".
3) The universe ends in total disintegration as it expands forever at an accelerating rate, the stretching of spacetime causing all bonds to break right down to the quarks comprising every last hadron.
#3 is the hot new thing blowing the dresses of physicists up these days, I think. And it appears to be corroborated by observation. Thus, I would say it's really good news if the universe turns out to be unstable and is consumed by a fresh, young universe before wholly disassociating into an eternal inky oblivion.
25 Feb 13
Originally posted by Soothfasta depressing but realistic outlook for humanity.
We've always been doomed, though. Fates to choose from at the Cosmology Buffet:
1) The universe ends in fire with a Big Crunch.
2) The universe ends in ice by expanding forever, but decelerating whilst asymptotically approaching the entropic state of "heat death".
3) The universe ends in total disintegration as it expands forever at an [i]acceleratin ...[text shortened]... sumed by a fresh, young universe before wholly disassociating into an eternal inky oblivion.
