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How Will the Universe End?

The Joy of Why

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The Higgs Field Could Change Again

We are happy that the Higgs field changed, though this symmetry breaking event occurred because it allowed us to exist. If it changed again, it would change us into a situation where our particles do not hold together. There would be different forces and different particles. It would switch us into what's called a true vacuum state. The universe being kind of meta stable, meaning not entirely stable.

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