maybe you couldn’t survive it but I’m built different
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Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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If our universe is in a false vacuum state rather than a true vacuum state, then the decay from the less stable false vacuum to the more stable true vacuum (called false vacuum decay) could have dramatic consequences.[5][6] The effects could range from complete cessation of existing fundamental forces, elementary particles and structures comprising them, to subtle change in some cosmological parameters, mostly depending on the potential difference between true and false vacuum. Some false vacuum decay scenarios are compatible with the survival of structures like galaxies, stars,[7][8] and even biological life,[9] while others involve the full destruction of baryonic matter[10] or even immediate gravitational collapse of the universe.[11] In this more extreme case, the likelihood of a “bubble” forming is very low (i.e. false vacuum decay may be impossible).[12] "
8000gnat@reddthat.com 1 week ago
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 week ago
I’m going to file this under the category of philosophy similar to “what if we’re living in a simulation?” and “parallel universe” theory. As far as I’m aware we have no evidence that there’s even such thing as a false vacuum, so this is all just speculation based on some theories.
Klear@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, if you need existential dread, a gamma-ray burst could end us in an instant too and they’re confirmed to exist and much more likely.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah but then we get to be big and green, or stretchy, or invisible etcetera
ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, that sucks.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 week ago
“We like to destroy the universe at least every couple of months.”
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Does this mean the laws of physics could just… Change?
Hoping for the scenario that means FTL travel is possible and nothing else changes lol
Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Irl physics patch is crazy
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
yup. though if the laws of physics change then that also means the laws of physics holding your atoms together are gonna be blended up into a soup at the very least
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Unless they change into a set of physical laws in which magic is real, and the turtle of enormous girth holds us all together in his mind!
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That seems wildly improbable. What are you going to push off of to get you to speeds faster than light? There could be gimmicky ways like expanding / contracting space, but thats not moving faster than light, thats space changing faster than light. Changing cosmic topology to allow stable wormholes could possibly do something similar, but that could just as easily mean that you and all other matter exist in the exact same location. That would be… not fun
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
But if the laws of physics were to change, who’s to say what’s possible‽ Star trek future is in the works!
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
More likely infinite energy just became a thing and you explode 🔥