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Cosmic Queries – Fixing Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder

StarTalk Radio

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Vacuum Decay, or the Big Rip?

A. Lake: I've worked on a lot of different things in the past 20 years, like thee phenomenology of particled physics and modified gravity. And you get used to giving up cherished ideas and just moving on and doing something else. That's how it should be - but scientists are only human. Agata: What is most terrifying to you? Vacuum decay sneaking up on us and suddenly destroying us, or the big rip? Which one is most probable to occur? Also, given that we are matter, what of the chances that we bump into anti matter and vanish in a puff of gamme rays? You got to temper your passion.

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