Tue Feb 19, 2013, 11:12 AM

Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable' [View all]

Source: BBC

Scientists say they may be able to determine the eventual fate of the cosmos as they probe the properties of the Higgs boson.

A concept known as vacuum instability could result, billions of years from now, in a new universe opening up in the present one and replacing it

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21499765

Cue all the jokes about not bothering to clean out the garage.

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Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable' [View all]	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	OP
So what happens to jesus when this new universe begins?	snooper2	Feb 19	#1
Oh, my God! The article didn't even cover that!	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#2
Well it SHOULD!	snooper2	Feb 19	#3
Here's What Happens:	cer7711	Feb 19	#6
Ah! A New New Testament.	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#7
It's testaments all the way down. /nt	localroger	Feb 19	#36
Maybe there's just one Jesus, and he controls all of the multi-verse	Hugabear	Feb 19	#10
And with an infinite number of universes	cpwm17	Feb 19	#19
If there is an infinite number of universes, then there is one with a god-like being who...	randome	Feb 19	#22
With an infinite number of universes	cpwm17	Feb 19	#25
Infinity Jesus?	R. Daneel Olivaw	Feb 23	#70
Our entire Universe is instantly destroyed without warning. n/t	Ian David	Feb 19	#20
Minor correction, our entire universe is destroyed at the speed of light.	joshcryer	Feb 19	#39
No, it's destroyed instantaneously, without regard for the speed of light, everywhere,.	Ian David	Feb 19	#41
This is the paper for the basis of the theory:	joshcryer	Feb 19	#43
Okay, you've convinced me. n/t	Ian David	Feb 19	#44
So it may have started already? n/t	JimDandy	Feb 20	#49
Yeah, or a billion years ago.	joshcryer	Feb 20	#50
Well, we can only see in one direction along the time/space	Warpy	Feb 20	#51
The whole idea is very trippy.	JimDandy	Feb 22	#66
He and Raptor Jesus, his arch-enemy and evil twin brother, have an epic battle?	Dash87	Feb 19	#31
Will Cthulhu be the referee? (n/t)	derby378	Feb 19	#32
Why yes, and his noodly highness can only be the chef.	Dash87	Feb 19	#35
Yep. I'll be there.	NoodleyAppendage	Feb 19	#42
Hopefully the new one won't have any Republicans.	longship	Feb 19	#4
and deadly weaponry is universally regarded as quaint and totally useless. ~nt	99th_Monkey	Feb 19	#15
The universe is unstable?	Remmah2	Feb 19	#5
Also: There is no gravity. The Earth sucks.	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#8
I don't feel grounded anymore.............. nt	Remmah2	Feb 19	#9
And Therefore	Wolf Frankula	Feb 19	#11
People are predicting apocalypses like there's no tomorrow. ~nt	99th_Monkey	Feb 19	#12
Ha!	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#16
Wonder if each persons energy will come back a a different life form.	Lint Head	Feb 19	#13
Or, if the Universe begins at the same point and with the same density as before...	randome	Feb 19	#21
That's interesting. Maybe it becomes an opposite universe.	Lint Head	Feb 19	#23
All The Universe is, is pure consciousness	99th_Monkey	Feb 19	#14
What does that mean?	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#17
Gunga galunga	The2ndWheel	Feb 19	#18
Ook.	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#30
Not a Carl Spackler fan?	The2ndWheel	Feb 20	#56
Oh come on. whole books are written about what it "means"	99th_Monkey	Feb 20	#47
Whole books have been written on scientific subjects	cpwm17	Feb 20	#53
It means "I want to look deep and spiritually-ish on the internet"	Scootaloo	Feb 20	#52
All screwed up	zipplewrath	Feb 19	#24
How about Quantum Physics?	99th_Monkey	Feb 20	#48
Good point	zipplewrath	Feb 20	#58
+10	99th_Monkey	Feb 20	#59
This is a liberal discussion forum	cpwm17	Feb 20	#60
Forgive me if I choose not to presume	99th_Monkey	Feb 20	#62
Relax	zipplewrath	Feb 21	#63
Assuming it was really a real question	99th_Monkey	Feb 21	#64
Always a problem	zipplewrath	Feb 21	#65
Don't forget Scott Bakula.	Son of Gob	Feb 23	#67
I haven't	99th_Monkey	Feb 23	#68
Vacuum State Instability	ThoughtCriminal	Feb 19	#26
If you just keep the glass chilled and use a good cranberry juice, they stay fine.	Squinch	Feb 19	#27
what can I do to protect	They_Live	Feb 19	#28
don't tell Cliffordu	grantcart	Feb 19	#29
Remember that song lyric from Ozzy Osbourne?	derby378	Feb 19	#33
It's certainly important to consume them before entropy takes its toll	slackmaster	Feb 19	#34
That's the spirit.	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#37
Republicans will figure out how to destroy the universe before that happens.	DaveJ	Feb 19	#38
Energy availablity is topped off at around 200 trillion years.	joshcryer	Feb 19	#40
Great!	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Feb 19	#45
You can put that off for a while	DavidDvorkin	Feb 19	#46
So we may enter another universe when this one begins to die off.	sakabatou	Feb 20	#54
"Yeah, I'm flakey and unstable -- but so is the rest of the cosmos! So gimme a break!"	struggle4progress	Feb 20	#55
He never did look all that	dipsydoodle	Feb 20	#57
it's always been unstable	Rosa Luxemburg	Feb 20	#61
+1 nt	bemildred	Feb 23	#69
When i plug a negative number into my equation it works	XRubicon	Feb 23	#71