Original Blog Entry: "Particle confirmed as Higgs boson"

JADELottery — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:49:02 GMT

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/14/17311477-particle-confirmed-as-higgs-boson

Interseting part of the article:

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From what is known about the particle now, physicists have said the Higgs boson may spell the universe's doom in the very far future. That's because the mass of the Higgs boson is a critical part of a calculation that portends the future of space and time. Its mass of 126 times the mass of the proton is just about what would be needed to create a marginally stable universe that could blink out of existence in a cataclysm billions of years from now.

This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe, Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said last month at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

It may be the universe we live in is inherently unstable, and at some point billions of years from now it's all going to get wiped out, added Lykken, a collaborator on the CMS experiment.

Or put it another way, The Simulation Ends...

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