Try it for real, you cowards! Just kidding... unless...
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tl;dr False Vacuum Decay
Maybe one day it will also tell us how worried we need to be about the Universe as we know it suddenly transforming into something else entirely.
I mean, really? we would never see it coming and, quite honestly, it sounds like a reasonable way to go - [poof; gone]. super cool science but as far as worry goes, there are many more painful and urgent issues to attend to in the here and now.
"In a 2005 paper published in Nature, as part of their investigation into global catastrophic risks, MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom calculate the natural risks of the destruction of the Earth at less than 1/109 per year from all natural (i.e. non-anthropogenic) events, including a transition to a lower vacuum state. They argue that due to observer selection effects, we might underestimate the chances of being destroyed by vacuum decay because any information about this event would reach us only at the instant when we too were destroyed."
Wouldn’t vacuum decay become permanently localized because it only travels at the speed of light?
The expansion of the universe happens everywhere all at once. So, once objects become far enough apart, the space between two objects can grow faster than the speed of light.
So, what’s to happen if a vacuum decay begins so far away that—even at the speed of light—it’ll never catch up to us?
Hell, Republicans are doing a good job of that!
Lol Yow! Hot take! Thanks for squeezing in politics everywhere you go! You're a true hero!
Aw did someone poke your bubble
Another zinger!
Some day you will be loved 🫶
Won't happen to me. I use a real vacuum cleaner on my carpets.
This would be the ideal end TBH. No warning, no dread, no pain, no suffering, just one instant you're biology and the next instant you're physics.


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