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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 90 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] somtwo@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

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@sh.itjust.works 39 points 11 months ago
[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

ugh i was hoping it would be before this election

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

That's a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago

It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 12 points 11 months ago

It’s like if I became 10,000 times less attractive. Same thing.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Is it more than 3?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

it's still a concern for biden

[-] Shard@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago

Its more like 0.5% difference.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

we'll find out who was right then

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Guess I'm not spending that Christmas with my family after all...

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