By the way not worrying much because very high energy cosmic rays (that have
been recorded with energies even, on rare occasions, exceeding the
Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit -- the theoretical limit to how powerful a
distant source cosmic ray can be) are hitting things (including our own planet)
all the time and the metastable local minima has not been tipped over the
boundary into a new -- possibly very different nature of reality.
Some of these cosmic rays -- so called extreme energy cosmic rays (from distant
sources) -- have significant energy levels that exceed this limit (5×1019 eV)
Wiki article on this:
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The Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (GZK limit) is a theoretical upper limit on
the energy of cosmic rays (high energy charged particles from space) coming
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From: Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com>
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2014 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the
universe
My first thought was that this has already happened in an uncountable number of
universes but we didn't survive those.
Terren
On Sep 8, 2014 12:07 AM, "LizR" <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote:
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???
>
>
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