Our universe may end the same way it was created: with a big, sudden bang. That's according to new research from a group of Harvard physicists, who found that the destabilization of the Higgs boson — a tiny quantum particle that gives other particles mass — could lead to an explosion of energy that would consume everything in the known universe and upend the laws of physics and chemistry.
As part of their study, published last month in the journal Physical Review D [open, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.056006] [DX], the researchers calculated when our universe could end. It's nothing to worry about just yet. They settled on a date 10139 years from now, or 10 million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years in the future. And they're at least 95% sure — a statistical measure of certainty — that the universe will last at least another 1058 years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 06 2018, @12:13AM (1 child)
I think we should just arrest the particle and strip it of its duties.
That or eject whomever wrote that garbage in the first place.
(Score: 4, Funny) by acid andy on Friday April 06 2018, @12:24AM
Maybe it's time to draw up a Constitution of Physics. That way anything undesirable the particle does in future would be unconstitutional. Unless it manages to pass an amendment.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?