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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 25 2014, @12:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 25 2014, @12:54PM (#59837)

    Remove the collapse by conscious observer part, and you get exactly the MWI version of the same claim: The universe still exists as a superposition of all such possible universes. And it is no surprise that the branch of that multiverse which we live in is indeed a branch which supports life.

    Indeed, with the collapse by observer part, you'd have to explain why the observer did not observe one of the non-life-supporting universes, at which time the collapse would irreversibly have destroyed the very observer who caused it.