My first thought was that this has already happened in an uncountable number of universes but we didn't survive those.
Terren On Sep 8, 2014 12:07 AM, "LizR" <[email protected]> wrote: > If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ... > > I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibility > - that the current state of the universe might be a false vaccuum (or > something like that) which could eventually drop into a lower energy state > and destroy the current universe, a bit like dropping a chunk of ice-9 in > the ocean. > > It occurs to me that surely the amount of energy directed at a given > region of space (which I assume contains lots of Higgs bosons, or at least > the Higgs field) must exceed the specified limit inside things like > supernovae and quasars, so presumably if this was likely it would have > happened by now??? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
