If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ... I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibility - that the current state of the universe might be a false vaccuum (or something like that) which could eventually drop into a lower energy state and destroy the current universe, a bit like dropping a chunk of ice-9 in the ocean.
It occurs to me that surely the amount of energy directed at a given region of space (which I assume contains lots of Higgs bosons, or at least the Higgs field) must exceed the specified limit inside things like supernovae and quasars, so presumably if this was likely it would have happened by now??? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
