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The Universe As We Know It May End Sooner Than Expected (hackaday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

Clickbaity title. The estimated time until Higgs field decay has been changed from 10^794^ years to 10^790^ years. Presumably there's some tiny chance of it happening today, but practically we can just continue worrying about all the regular stuff that is about to kill us all.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also, from what I understand, we wouldn't see it coming (as the decay would be spreading at the speed of light), and everything would be over before our senses could ever detect anything out of the ordinary.

[–] kinkles 39 points 2 months ago

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