seeder Posted December 13, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Well not sure what to make of this article at all... but I do hope it can wait till after xmas Could the universe collapse TODAY? Physicists claim that risk is ‘more likely than ever and may have already started’ * Collapse could be down to a subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson * Higgs boson is evidence for an energy field that pervades the universe * Shift in field will cause particles in it to become billions of times heavier * The new weight will squeeze all material into a small, super-hot and heavy ball, and the universe as we know it will cease to exist The universe could be about to collapse and everything in it - including us - will be compressed into a small, hard ball. The process may already have started somewhere in our cosmos and is eating away at the rest of the universe, according to theoretical physicists. The mind-bending concept has been around for a while, but now researchers in Denmark claim they have proven it is possible with mathematical equations. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2523177/Could-universe-collapse-TODAY-Physicists-claim-risk-likely-started.html#ixzz2nNYJn7qA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted December 13, 2013 #2 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Is there any form of taxation that'll help safeguard mankind? Not yet, but I'll wager the Chancellor's working on it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaturtlehorsesnake Posted December 13, 2013 #3 Share Posted December 13, 2013 man, i know that the daily mail is a tabloid, but the disconnect between the headline and the actual content of the article in this one is almost a work of art. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted December 13, 2013 Author #4 Share Posted December 13, 2013 man, i know that the daily mail is a tabloid, but the disconnect between the headline and the actual content of the article in this one is almost a work of art. ha yeh - well it sells papers doesnt it? Heres a story from 2002 Universe is 'doomed to collapse' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2346907.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted December 13, 2013 #5 Share Posted December 13, 2013 See, everyone was happy until the Hadron Collider went and discovered this Higgs-Bison thing, and now, we've got something else to worry about. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaturtlehorsesnake Posted December 13, 2013 #6 Share Posted December 13, 2013 fortunately i am always filled with a deep sense of existential terror! i'm way ahead of you guys. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitecht Posted December 13, 2013 #7 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Could happen... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted December 13, 2013 #8 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Could the universe collapse TODAY? Gawd, I hope so! I'm ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted December 13, 2013 #9 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Some how that makes me really happy. I can't wait to bring it up next time I am with my New Age Pagan buddies. The end of the world, 12/21/12, was such a disappointment for them. It will give them something to look forward too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted December 13, 2013 #10 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Thank you Arkitecht, cool short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingAngel Posted December 14, 2013 #11 Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) It could because there is no force that counter Gravity Edited December 14, 2013 by FlyingAngel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four Winds Posted December 14, 2013 #12 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Wasn't this theory put forward decades ago under the name "Big Crunch"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flbrnt Posted December 14, 2013 #13 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Number one, this presupposes nothing new will be discovered to upset the apple cart. Number two, since no information travels faster than the speed of light it will be over and done before we realize it. One can say about this what one says about death, "I expected it, but not this soon." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshadow60 Posted December 14, 2013 #14 Share Posted December 14, 2013 If the universe collapses, at least we will all go together. Fine with me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whisperer Posted December 14, 2013 #15 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Relax, since its all just a projection anyway, it'll just reboot back to where it glitches out...like right now...time for pop corn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted December 14, 2013 #16 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Given that it's probablity is quite some time from now, far beyond when ourselve's, our children, great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchilden, etc... will experience, I have no worries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted December 14, 2013 #17 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I don't want to collapse. anyway.... this just isn't going to happ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted December 15, 2013 #18 Share Posted December 15, 2013 True, not in our forseable future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapow53 Posted December 15, 2013 #19 Share Posted December 15, 2013 The universe ie not about to collapse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted December 16, 2013 #20 Share Posted December 16, 2013 That is exactly what i've said in one of my previous posting. The universe is also contracting in a continuous pulsatory energo- kinetic phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted December 16, 2013 #21 Share Posted December 16, 2013 The earth has been making its way around the sun now for some four billion years without the universe collapsing. While the past is no guarantor of the future, it does make the universe lasting a little longer seem likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted December 16, 2013 #22 Share Posted December 16, 2013 (edited) There wasn't 4 billions. The calculations are wrong. It is much less than that. The isotope dating is extremely inaccurate. Edited December 16, 2013 by qxcontinuum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted December 16, 2013 #23 Share Posted December 16, 2013 There wasn't 4 billions. The calculations are wrong. It is much less than that. The isotope dating is extremely inaccurate. Yea, sure, like you are an expert. Buddha, give me strength and patience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calle Posted December 19, 2013 #24 Share Posted December 19, 2013 If the universe collapses, at least we will all go together. Fine with me. was about to say that lols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGirl Posted December 19, 2013 #25 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Wasn't this theory put forward decades ago under the name "Big Crunch"? I thought big crunch was the name of a candy bar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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