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Cosmic Vertigo Names
- Cosmic vertigo is called Cosmic Brudigo or Cosmophobia, naming the feeling of disorientation when contemplating the vast universe.
- This feeling arises due to the overwhelming scale and forces like black holes and universal expansion accelerating.
Seeing the Big Bang's Fireball
- We can actually observe the primordial fireball radiation from the Big Bang as it comes from all directions.
- This cosmic microwave background radiation is evidence of the universe once being hot, dense, and smaller.
Vacuum Decay: A Universe End
- Vacuum decay could cause the universe's end via a bubble expanding at light speed, destroying everything without warning.
- It's a quantum probabilistic event, possible anytime but extremely unlikely to occur soon or be avoidable.