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New Research: The Higgs Boson Should Have Caused Universe to Collapse

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 24 2014, @10:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-science dept.

rts008 writes:

The Higgs boson is delightfully stirring the mud puddle in the astrophysics community even after found! Instead of clearing everything up, now more questions have to be asked.

EarthSky.org reports:

British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the latest observations of the sky with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Robert Hogan of King's College London (KCL) presents the new research on June 24 at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth.

The controversy seems to be about one of the predictions of BICEP2 allegedly being observed, and if so, Robert Hogan seems to think that if they did see this effect, then the universe would not exist today, it would have went straight to 'Big Crunch' right after the 'Big Bang'.

Pop the corn, this may be a good one!

 
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  • (Score: 2) by khallow on Wednesday June 25 2014, @01:09AM

    by khallow (3766) on Wednesday June 25 2014, @01:09AM (#59642) Journal

    How long is "always exists"? Because according to current observation, "always existed" seems to have a shelf-life of roughly 13.7 billion years.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 25 2014, @02:55PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday June 25 2014, @02:55PM (#59890)

    If time is an artifact of the physical universe, I would think it's possible that time itself didn't really exist before the hypothesized Big Bang, in which case you could argue that it was in fact always there.

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    • (Score: 2) by khallow on Wednesday June 25 2014, @04:26PM

      by khallow (3766) on Wednesday June 25 2014, @04:26PM (#59943) Journal

      I would think it's possible that time itself didn't really exist before the hypothesized Big Bang, in which case you could argue that it was in fact always there.

      You can argue the Moon is made of green cheese. But that doesn't make it a fact.