On 9/7/2014 9:07 PM, LizR 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???
I don't think you can get energies like 10^11Gev even in supernova. The only place I can
think of that might produce that kind of energy is approaching the singularity of a black
hole. Of course we very much doubt there is singularity (infinities are in equations, not
reality), but maybe that's how Nature avoids a singularity.
Brent
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