Billions of years from now the Universe may vanish. And you'll never see it coming.
Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist... who is on the science team at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), told reporters
"... many tens of billions of years from now, there'll be a catastrophe. A little bubble of what you might think of as an 'alternative' universe will appear somewhere and then it will expand out and destroy us."
He said the castastrophic event would happen at the speed of light, suggesting that the catastrophe itself will take billions of years to unfold.
Unless you happen to be right at the spot where the alternative universe forms. In which case you get to form the new universe. Which is sort of cool.
It all has to do somehow with the Higgs Boson's mass. (And you thought those physicists in Switzerland were mostly there for the skiing...)
According to Space.com, the mass of the Higgs boson discovered in July 2012 at the world's largest particle accelerator facility, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, may yet spell the doom of our universe...
... based on the indications that the Higgs boson is about 126 billion electron volts, or about 126 times the mass of the proton, scientists are saying that the universe may just be fundamentally unstable, and that it may run into a catastrophic end in the future.
Yup. Our entire Universe is going to be replaced by another one, and all because of some stupid typo. You know how someone misspells your name slightly on some form or other and for the next twenty years you get mail addressed with that misspelling? Well, it's sort of like that, only it's going to go on for some 10 billion plus more years and then someone up there is going to realize the mistake, submit a revision request form and -- poof! -- we get replaced by a kind, gentler Cosmos with a modified Higgs Boson.
And thanks for all the fish.