> On 8 Sep 2014, at 2:07 pm, 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???
>
Yes, yes, yes, and while we're at it I have heard it discreetly rumoured that
Dark Energy, the "force" or property of space that is causing the universe to
acceleratde its expansion might similarly become a runaway process causing an
"atomic rip" where matter literally tears itself apart on the back of this
galloping inverted-gravitational nightmare.
What if they both decided to happen at the same time? You could have a runaway
vacuum expanding into a dintegrating matter field at the speed of loght.
But of course, there will always be someone there to observe it, now won't
there.
Kim
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