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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.
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.
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So, if I'm reading it right, everything would just rip apart at the speed of light due to a change in mass because of the Higgs field transitioning to a lower state?
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Huh, so it does.
That's a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.
It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.
Itβs like if I became 10,000 times less attractive. Same thing.
Is it more than 3?
it's still a concern for biden
Its more like 0.5% difference.
Not really, the new value is 0.0001% of the old.
Just because the number has barely fewer digits doesn't mean it's barely smaller
we'll find out who was right then
Guess I'm not spending that Christmas with my family after all...