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Showing Original Post only (View all)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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If there is an infinite number of universes, then there is one with a god-like being who...
randome
Feb 2013
#22
No, it's destroyed instantaneously, without regard for the speed of light, everywhere,.
Ian David
Feb 2013
#41
and deadly weaponry is universally regarded as quaint and totally useless. ~nt
99th_Monkey
Feb 2013
#15
Or, if the Universe begins at the same point and with the same density as before...
randome
Feb 2013
#21
If you just keep the glass chilled and use a good cranberry juice, they stay fine.
Squinch
Feb 2013
#27
"Yeah, I'm flakey and unstable -- but so is the rest of the cosmos! So gimme a break!"
struggle4progress
Feb 2013
#55