Is the Higgs Field unstable? | Vacuum Decay

[@js2010ish]

"A quick and easy death--shout out to Audible!"

[@Ghostavio]

laughed way too hard at this

[@rockbarcellos]

Now that's the marketing you want

[@NoahFriedman]

I've never laughed out loud at a KZbin comment before

[@xx_xxxxx_xx4800]

yeah that cracked me up as well. nothing like a relatable episode of Arvin Ash

[@SzTz100]

lol so funny

[@NoahFriedman]

Perhaps the Big Bang was a drop in the previous universe's vacuum energy state

[@oregonhighway]

I was thinking that on my walk

[@wingflanagan]

“…a quick and easy death, at the speed of light.” Delightfully morbid. I shall adopt this phrase immediately.

[@layton3503]

If it was going to happen, it would have happened in 2020.

[@alphagt62]

It’s true, worrying about it will be of little use. And it could have already began! But if it’s a few billion light years away, we’ve got a long time before it gets here.

[@citizenscience659]

Considering how SLOW the speed of light is compared to the millions of light-years in size, it is probably collapsing already, this just hasn't crept into our 'visible' range just yet.

[@hiratiomasterson4009]

Ah well, a quick and easy death that we won't see coming - beats heading into work and dealing with more supply chain disasters...BRING IT ON!

[@PinkbubblegumPop]

You stole the words outta my mouth LOL 😅 except it'd be really depressing that non of this would continue to exist ❤️

[@chriswinchell1570]

My first reaction to the video was “fingers crossed…”

[@nycest14u2nv]

You’ll wake up and someone will grab your hand and say, “cool video game right”!?

[@chriswinchell1570]

@@nycest14u2nv hahaha It is likely that we’re all simulated.

[@KateeAngel]

@@PinkbubblegumPop what humans did to this planet is an abomination, it would be good if it stopped existing. But when it comes to natural world, yeah it would be sad if it died, although it is inevitable, sooner or later

[@meowzers4380]

I had to pause it 10 times, rewind and restart, but I made it and I get it now! Wow. Is all I can say. Thanks so much again Arvin for your teaching ❤🌹

[@ArvinAsh]

Great! Glad to hear that you had the patience and motivation to understand this. Congratulations and kudos to you my friend! My videos tend to be very information dense, so this is the kind of thing I expect people to do.

[@arnoldstrickland2814]

@@ArvinAsh Arvin,why would I want to even discuss this theory,half the human race would be terrorized by thoughts of death and despair,love your stuff but take it easy,this is more than likely not the case!

[@ReluctantStallion]

Well, we’d be rid of mondays, so that evens it out.

[@KutWrite]

Retirement did that for me. No need for mass destruction.

[@NewPipeFTW]

If you accept that the universe may exist eternaly. The universe may also reorganizes to one version, where we reset after every monday .. for ever.. Till the next quantum fluctuation rerolls the dice. We as a species may never know. Dont waste your life on a job that you hate or atleast enjoy the rest of the week. Its kinda sad that most ppl today seem to think Armageddon/Death was better than life. Western culture/ old testament hurray..?

[@FobbitMike]

Interesting, Arvin. The fascinating aspect of the Higgs is ... we know neither the actual minimum nor if there is another Higgs field that exists at another, higher minimum potential. We have a lot to learn.

[@PinkbubblegumPop]

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[@arlenestanton9955]

He even said as much, don’t panic, we have much to learn.

[@Dinnye01]

Well, technically, as it stands now, we are in a metastable state. But since, in theory, vacuum decay spreads with the speed of light, even if it has already started, we may never experience it, if it is beyond the cosmic event horizon.

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

And whosoever learneth shall immediately go insane!

[@MrMeow-iq7kq]

its the main problem I take with nearly all these "science" channels. They make broad sweeping claims, that can be fundamentally altered as we learn something new, or are countered by their own reasoning. Its not like we fully comprehend even a fraction of this stuff,... its a bit of a red herring to outright claim the universe could end in a moment. You can tell Arvin is even well aware of this by what he says near the end. I would go as far as calling it clickbait for topic material... just something to rake up views and attention. Not to mention, the ways, and tools in which we use to describe our universe, are fundamentally flawed and limited... however accurate we get. Like trying to describe the apple, when you are but the seed inside it.

[@williams.vincent4235]

I always enjoy your videos Arvin as my interest in physics has come in the past couple of years (I’m 60 years old) versus as a kid/student and you are able to explain things that a “very LAY-person” such as myself can understand. Thank you!

[@harshad761977]

Amazing content, simplistic language, extraordinary narrative and video editing.

[@ArvinAsh]

Much appreciated! It is a lot of work, as you probably know.

[@marianoarevalo2946]

Maybe the expansion of the universe save us from that bubble.

[@spk_eze]

@@HylanderSB the expansion of space is slower than the speed of light, but since that expansion means distant galaxies are accelerating away from us, there are regions of space we can see now that are likely moving away from us faster than the speed of light. Assuming dark energy remains constant, eventually everything not gravitationally bound to our galaxy will move beyond the "future horizon" and eventually we will never be able to detect them. Which I think is a more sobering thought than false vacuum collapse.

[@axl1002]

@@HylanderSB the universe is expanding faster than light

[@chompchompnomnom4256]

The universe as definitely expanding for my wife's tits. They used to be close together and now they're miles apart.

[@CaptainFalcoyd]

@@HylanderSB Wrong. Most of the universe is moving away from us faster than the speed of light. Which is why we will never be able to reach other galaxies. The expansion of the universe itself isn't limited by the speed of light - during the inflation phase right after the big bang, the universe went from smaller than a planet to larger than a galaxy in a microsecond. So yes, the expansion of the universe IS likely saving us from a death bubble if one exists, considering how much of the universe is safely out of reach.

[@JohnnyAmerique]

@@HylanderSB The vast majority of the galaxies in the observable universe are already beyond our cosmic event horizon; if we were to send a message to them now at light speed, it would never get there. We can see them now because the light now arriving was emitted in the distant past when the universe was much smaller. The current distance to our cosmic event horizon is about 16 billion light years, whereas the observable universe has a radius of about 46 billion light years.

[@bragadeeshkumaran194]

I love uncertainty. Gives me chills every time I hear that.

[@kjthompson6513]

The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, so depending on what corner of the Universe in which the collapse occurs; we may never experience said collapse.

[@kuzzbillington6392]

This is one of those rare occations when I simply say "this is knowledge I don't think I need"

[@Dinnye01]

I wonder if our universe is the end result of such a "reconfiguration". If the big bang was simply a vacuum decay, and there is a previous universe that is still being consumed by our bubble. Fascinating

[@monstadable]

I think it already happened but I continue to exist in a parallel universe where it hasn't.

[@arifeannor9573]

Every time you die, you wake up pop into the universe where things went the other way and you didn't die. Think about that shit next time you are thinking about suicide.

[@Winged1212]

Mandela effect

[@TheAllanmc64]

As far as taking incredibly complex theories and breaking them down so I can digest them in my rather dense and damaged brain , Arvin is right up there with the Brians' ( Cox and Greene). Thank you. The more you know , the more you see you know almost nothing. Very humbling.

[@mrgyani]

I remember reading about this in an article some time ago.. It blew my mind. Thanks for covering this.

[@PURE.EVIL.]

You are by far the best science teacher.

[@monsieurmitosis]

The only thing that I can think of that would be scarier than not seeing this coming would be to see this coming.

[@stefantheconqueror8710]

This was explained on PBS space time a while ago, but this videos explanation is just as interesting

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. Many thanks for the link to the paper.

[@ayanchoudhary044]

Best thing about this video is animations and explaination!

[@keauxgeigh]

I thought the same thing while watching. He or someone had to create them, he's not just a talking head.

[@fauzulazim2993]

The Bubble may be created at the center of the Black Hole but the gravity pulled back the expansion to the center and created new universe behind it with different law of physic out there.

[@RichardEricCollins]

I was wondering that. Maybe all back holes have moved to the lower state. Could solve the information paradox.

[@phoule76]

Let's hope that the expansion of the universe will outrun any possible vacuum decay.

[@AlecsNeo]

Yes , i was thinking the same , the universe cannot end like this because it expands faster then C .

[@qwallace4832]

One minute in, and I’m praying we’re not doomed to be Strange. I remember a *Kurzgesagt episode that had me terrified of those goofy green adorably Strange particles (quarks iirc) that make everything strange and “stable”

[@sabeshbala1933]

Wow Arvin..each of your videos opens up many dimensions of our existence .

[@andreyassa7638]

I simply love all your videos! Thanks a lot for all the effort and your ability to explain complex stuff in a simple way.

[@MonCappy]

If the universe collapsed to the true vacuum somewhere beyond the observable universe, would that bubble of doom ever reach us?

[@korakys]

That's a good question. If the new vacuum minima can only travel at the speed of light, as Arvin said, then I don't see how it would ever reach us if it start beyond the "universal horizon".

[@thebatman6201]

The universe is expanding faster the further away we go.. maybe its already popped

[@axl1002]

Nope, beyond that the expanse is faster than light.

[@ltj1024]

It doesn't have to be that far away (beyond the observable universe) to be safe for us. Check out Kurzgesagt's "True Limits of Humanity" video. Only 6% of the observable universe is reachable for humanity, and the rest of the universe is already unreachable forever due to them receding away from us faster than the speed of light. As long as the collapse doesn't happen in the 6% region near us, we are safe forever.

[@Bluhbear]

@@ltj1024 and that region is still shrinking, so we get safer as time goes on... however it's definitely possible for multiple collapses to happen in different times and places, so there's no way to guarantee being safe forever (other than the very likely scenario of us just not being right about some things)

[@revtks]

A week ago I didn't know what metastable meant, as soon as I discover it, you have a video out! Love your videos and keep up the great work!

[@MrElvis1971]

The algorithm is doing its job.

[@ArvinAsh]

Glad to hear YT works sometimes.

[@bantix9902]

I love videos that go into a little more depth and assume some basic comprehension skills. Nice graphics as well keep it up

[@eliotjanvier4653]

So, considering that some parts of the universe move away from us faster than light, due to the dilatation of space: if that “death bubble” were to pop somewhere, isn’t there a good chance that it would never reach us since it wouldn’t be able to go fast enough?

[@ArvinAsh]

yes.

[@herpusvonclustus456]

incredible visuals that you only find on arvin ash videos. thank you so much

[@bayloch]

No one ever expects the death bubble! Great video ... the animations were most helpful.

[@spookyaction]

it is amazing to witness latest science suggesting the same thing as ancient texts like armagedon. it feels like ancient people also discovered all these but somehow all was forgotten..

[@vikkris]

Space between the galaxies is expanding faster than light...does that mean bubble is unlikely to reach us if it is beyond current visible horizon?

[@christosmakariou4574]

Not unlickly but surely

[@HH-mw4sq]

Excellent question. If that "bubble" originates in the "unobservable" universe from our perspective, it would never reach us. Then again, if it spread like "cosmic inflation" is alleged to have, an increase of 10^26 in volume, within 10^-34 seconds, we would be toast.

[@edwardwood3622]

Yes

[@edwardwood3622]

@@HH-mw4sq Hi, cosmic inflation created new space, it doesn’t eat up existing space.

[@HH-mw4sq]

@@edwardwood3622 - errr no!!! New space wasn't created from Cosmic inflation. If you stretch a rubber membrane to increase its area, do you create new rubber?

[@dreadnoughtus2598]

If the bubble happened in a part of the universe that's expanding/moving away from us faster than the speed of light. Would it even reach us or would we even be able to know about it?

[@starshipsn-9513]

Nope, it wouldn't ever reach us and we wouldn't ever be able to know about it

[@ManiBalajiC]

Unless the bubble is way faster than the speed of which space is expanding which I don't think will ever happen.

[@kevindudson2344]

In the year 2500 we might be able to detect some tachyon that results from the false vacuum decay. If else there is no way to know.

[@pimpomresolution5202]

So basically, any such fluctuation would appear at best as a slowly growing blob (assuming it occurs during a time when we were causally connected) but eventually receding away from us and disappearing over the horizon. The chances of any such a fluctuation happening close enough to us to be a problem may be vanishingly remote.

[@antonystringfellow5152]

@@pimpomresolution5202 No. If the light could reach us, so would the bubble... they're together, travelling at the same speed. For it to affect us, it would have to begin within the boundary of the visible universe. Nothing that happens beyond there can have an effect here.

[@shadowoffire4307]

Our universe is balancing on thin rope,standing on rope with only left right leg without any safety. like acrobat in circus.

[@PinkbubblegumPop]

That's why I am not completely secular niether adhere fully to my kabbalistic jewish & other major religions laws of existing by 🤍 It's just that no one posseses a satisfactory answer & it seems that our questions will never be answered at least not while we are CONCIOUS enough to comprehend them 🇮🇱🇱🇺🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈💕🌺💋🐞🌼🧿🙏🕉️🛐⚛️✡️✝️☦️☪️☯️☮️☸️🔯🕎♾️💟 #CorkyCarla

[@quantumdecoherence1289]

Woke up to an existential crisis--thanks Arvin

[@korakys]

Vacuum decay is one of the more interesting apocalypse theories and this is the best explanation I've seen of it so far.

[@BrainyCosmos]

I think a video about origin of life on earth from molecules to complex organism would be amazing .

[@thebatman6201]

Do we have that data? I'd also watch such a video

[@raresmircea]

I recommend watching this general explanation of abiogenesis and what differentiates "living matter" from "dead matter", i think it’s the best one can find on youtube: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKW2gIhvmtyffas

[@marishkagrayson]

For some reason, I have an irrational fear of the meta stable Higgs field. The sudden demise of our universe, however improbable, is more scary than a long drawn out but inevitable death by ripping or heat death.

[@cr4yv3n]

heat death is horrifying. Slow and creepy. Forever. And EVER.

[@duncanluciak5516]

It could have started somewhere in the universe, but may never* reach us. *for billions of years

[@Parasmunt]

There are 400 or so phobias, people being afraid of having peanut butter stuck to their mouths. People afraid of fridges. Vacuum decay should not be something anyone should be afraid of because... you won't even know it if it happens and there is nothing that can possibly be done to stop it.

[@MarshalArnold]

Ah, I get it.. It's literally like the nothing from the never-ending story.

[@alejandrodeugarriza7690]

I was thinking exactly this!

[@mequavis]

except the nothing didn't move at the frikken speed of light... :O

[@KutWrite]

@@mequavis: Speed of light still means we have at least 13b years 'til it gets here.

[@gremlinaftermidnight4493]

I have not given thought to that in decades, then in same day, three random unrelated scenarios all references the nothing from never ending story. Thoroughly spooked by the synchronicity and compelled to acquire copy of that novel.

[@LynxBlackWind]

Awesome material Arvin :) Well the collapse of stable state could happen multiple times at any number of paces beyond our cosmic horizon and if the propagation speed limit is the speed of light, it would never get into our region, right? We only need to worry if it happens within our observable bubble, so it's fine ;) In the end it adds up to the list of scenarios how the universe can end - collapse into true vacuum state. But I have so many follow up questions, like: - what if it happened insite a black hole event horizon: would the true vacuum propagation never escepe (if it can only reach the speed of light), or would it eat up the singularity, destroy the black hole (flatten the spacetime geometry) and propagate further? - what if there are bubbles of true vacuum already in the universe but escaping each other faster than their own expansion? Would breaking the universe homogenity have consequences? Like could it explain the dark flow? - could it explain some cosmic great voids or the cold spots seen in CMB? Answering any of those would make my day :)

[@Bizija123]

This is like saying there is a non-zero potential that I will win the mega million jackpot 10 times in a row, rofl. Great video.

[@nikolaos1991]

If this vacuum has started somewhere and the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, doesn’t that mean we will never see it happening ( maybe if it stop expanding?)

[@ArvinAsh]

Once it starts, it would not stop.

[@mn-ru4li]

So Covid-19 doesn't seem that much of a threat anymore... sigh...

[@Novarcharesk]

Given its mortality rate is less than 1%, it was never a threat.

[@Ryan-fk3oi]

@@Novarcharesk bruh please, enough....

[@KateeAngel]

But it causes suffering, and that is worse than death

[@PolarDoc22]

@@Ryan-fk3oi enough telling the truth? enough standing up against people who have admitted to lying about covid “for our own good”? enough thinking for ourselves? Ignorant fool, youre on a science channel and youre trying to socially coerce people into not saying things you dont want to accept.

[@mn-ru4li]

@@PolarDoc22 bruh, please... enough

[@gettothepoint_already3858]

So then, this is goodbye? Well, it was fun while it lasted Arvi......

[@YLLPal]

It would also have to be within our causal horizon to affect us, so, that's a plus, right?

[@AlecsNeo]

Yup

[@FelixIsGood]

Question: If the "accident" happend at the far end of the universe, it might never reach us correct? Or at least not in a time where it matters even if humanity lives to the end ( in terms of being useful ) of our galaxy. I'm asking because there is still the expansion of the universe.

[@stein1919]

i think this is how the hypothesis of eternal inflation works. the "multiverse" keeps expanding but these "accidents" sometimes occur that can lead to new big bangs and new universes.

[@chriswinchell1570]

It seems like if it occurs beyond the horizon, it would never reach us.

[@ArvinAsh]

If it happens within the observable universe, it would reach us eventually. But the universe is probably bigger, possibly much bigger, than the observable universe.

[@chriswinchell1570]

@@ArvinAsh I had thought that most of the observable universe is actually currently moving faster than the speed of light. In other words, most of what we observe is no longer within our horizon.

[@JohnnyAmerique]

If indeed the vacuum is unstable and were to decay to a lower energy state, such a bubble of true vacuum would nucleate outwards at c, so it would only ever reach us if it was within our cosmic event horizon. If it occurred in some distant galaxy beyond the local group, it would never get here and we would have no way of knowing it ever even occurred, owing to the expansion of the universe.

[@PinkbubblegumPop]

Lol after all of this you ask us why are we all not panicking & offer another calming research 🤪

[@Todss12]

And then proceeds to say it could've already happened. I don't know about you but I'm still panicking.

[@Todss12]

I've never had so much anxiety while watching a KZbin video.

[@eriksantana6775]

It is what it is bro

[@ArvinAsh]

Well, hopefully what I said at the end of the video - that it is unlikely to happen anytime soon, settled your nerves a bit? We have no control over events like this. And honestly, there are much more pressing things that the human race does have control over, that we should worry about.

[@Todss12]

@@ArvinAsh I appreciate the sentiment, although it’s the fact that we have no control over it that freaks me out.

[@g0lbez]

@@Todss12 my brain does similar things and it can be hard to deal with but i just force myself to realize that while anxiety and fear can benefit your survival it has absolutely no benefit if the situation is completely beyond your control

[@jasonpenz8902]

@@ArvinAsh I love your vids and how your open minded that anything can be possible

[@bmercful]

You missed the perfect opportunity to have a big red button at the beginning of the video that once pushed causes to pop up in being letters saying "Don't panic ".

[@someidiot4570]

how exactly does a true vacuum region expand? what mechanism prevents it from staying as a small region?

[@THeMin1000]

It'll be like a chain reaction. A higgs falling into the true vacuum energy region would cause neighbouring particles to do the same.

[@usama57926]

Arvin your videos are always awesome.

[@goprodan]

How about when galaxies are getting away faster than the speed of light and disconected of causality, does that prevent the expansion of the bubble?

[@ArvinAsh]

Probably yes - outside the observable universe.

[@twistedspike69]

As soon as I thought “I’m not smart enough for this video” the man said “I hope you’re with me so far”

[@xspotbox4400]

That's interesting, so only the material universe would fall apart, but not the light from past events traveling in the void forever.

[@burnerjack01]

Can there be light without the EM field? Can the EM field exist without the Universe?

[@xspotbox4400]

@@burnerjack01 Good one, let me add some fuel to the fire. Can all quantum force fields collapse if only one of them became unstable?

[@burnerjack01]

@@xspotbox4400 Something tells me, if there is or was a unified field, any collapse of any field would also collapse the others. No proof, no theory, just a hunch.

[@xspotbox4400]

@@burnerjack01 Make sense, it would be weird if only light could start deeming somehow, but everything else would stay the same. There's that thing called conservation of energy, whatever we take in or out, must reflect in everything else. But that doesn't mean everything must vanish, it could be diminishing of one quantum force field would inflate something else instead. That's an interesting idea, since collapse should spread with the speed of light, perhaps this is why we can see microwave background, it's a wave crest of a receding force.

[@exharkhun5605]

I'm supremely confident that in the face of a crisis of this magnitude humanity will band together to put all the resource and qualities of humankind to the task of figuring out who to blame.

[@thomascorbett2936]

Geez, I'm feeling very uncertain if it's worth going to work tomorrow .

[@ArvinAsh]

It is never a good idea to worry about things you have no control over.

[@kennethterry8894]

Looking at this from an ontological perspective is reassuring. The odds of any of us experiencing this “quick and easy death” are vanishingly minute. Then again…

[@alltimeslove]

Sir why Earth is not rotating anticlockwise direction

[@axl1002]

Because it tried to read your name and lost direction.

[@Krenum100]

Is it possible that if a true vacuum collapse has already occurred at the far corner of the universe that it would never reach us as the space between us and collapse is expanding faster than light?

[@kreynolds1123]

The period of inflation is hard to understand without knowing the mechanisms. Reaching here... Could the period of inflation have been in a false vacuum and we actually are currently in the lower energy state?

[@aydensalerno8489]

I'm pretty certain that that's the idea behind the inflaton field.

[@steelersgoingfor7706]

Yes. The big bang was the result of the transition to lowest entropy on an inevitable macro scale. Quantum scale tbd.

[@gurumom3023]

Reasons why not to stress on this: 1. You wouldn’t be surviving until then, of course. 2. It will take Octillions of years for it to happen - imagine how advanced technology will be even in the next 100 years. Nothing is impossible. 3. Your quantum consciousness is Immortal. 4. There are Multiple Worlds, we can use entanglement, quark gluon plasma (if a big freeze is going to happen) and Helium below Absolute Zero (if there is a heat death). If you see some of Michio Kaku, you will understand how optimistic he is, just stating facts, unlike others who say a statement IS correct and stress on it. 5. Mass and Energy are conserved. We can reverse entropy and create energy if we attain a temp below Absolute Zero. 6. Cosmic Death is not even probable. Even the fact that the Universe will end is so uncertain. 7. This is as Physics is very uncertain that 3 percent accuracy for a theory is very good! 8. If there is Uncertainty, the probability of something bad can not be 100. Uncertainty is not necessarily a bad thing, it only says you can’t predict the future with complete accuracy. 9. Our Universe may be in a infinite cycle of rebirths and death. 10. Data is conserved in the universe. 11. It is unlikely that this bubble event will ever happen as nothing can go faster than the speed of light. If it can, we can do something opposing this too. You can’t oppose any of my statements as anything is possible because of our friend - uncertainty! *My tip of life - just enjoy life - be a optimist or a realist - live in the present not be anxious about the future* :) Please read it!

[@xspotbox4400]

I think universe must be very stable because it came from nothing. So this pathetic thing exist when everything is not nothing. Magic and beautiful universe would be way more unstable.

[@philipberthiaume2314]

Brilliant graphics

[@andreylebedenko1260]

10:55 ... or perhaps there was no Big Bang at all and CMB has a different source.

[@nehaseth2793]

Interesting but I wonder what can it be then 🤔🤔✖️➕➖➗🔬😎

[@andreylebedenko1260]

@@nehaseth2793 There are plenty of alternative explanations, some are better than others, none of them, however, are perfect. But then again, BB theory also has number of flaws (e.g. helium and lithium problem, constant inflation paradox etc).

[@JohnnyAmerique]

Well the classical Big Bang model you learn in an intro to astronomy course or whatever is well known to be incomplete, as it predicts a singularity. Singularities are unphysical mathematical constructs; basically, a singularity means your theory has been pushed beyond its domain of applicability.

[@nehaseth2793]

@@andreylebedenko1260 Hmmm... I think It would be easier to predict about how the universe came into exist once we have a Quantum theory of Gravity because maybe it would help us to understand Singularities as well right?

[@nehaseth2793]

@@JohnnyAmerique Hmmm...

[@jmanj3917]

We can see the CMB in all directions. So there is no area of space being destabilized in between the CMB and us.

[@ArvinAsh]

The destabilization could have come after the time of the CMB

[@Raptor302]

Death Bubble: I'm coming at you at the speed of light! Dark Energy: Ha! Ha! Extra space machine goes brrrrrtttt!!!

[@nomadexplorer6682]

Great presentation Arvin. The question is...does the universe also suffer from existential crisis? If the universe is conscious, will it destroy itself? And if so, into what? Fundamentally, matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. Spacetime is also involved. Then there is the Cause and Effect phenomenon like we observe the apple, eat it, survive and leave the seed behind for regeneration. Isn't the universe behaving similarly ad infinitum?

[@alanhyland5697]

That's the way I want to go - that's why I'm not panicking lol

[@MitzvosGolem1]

With every end comes a new beginning... שלום

[@PinkbubblegumPop]

ממצבבבבבב? Do you believe in kabbalistic concepts? Multiple dimensions? Reincarnations? & what kind of a new beginning do you think it would be? Big hug #CorkyCarla Jerusalem Israel 🇮🇱🇱🇺🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈💕🌺💋🐞🤍

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@PinkbubblegumPop Zohar Kabbalah is somewhat controversial and many Orthodox Jews do not accept such.. In fact as per RAMBAM one cannot study such until 40yo and has mastered the Torah and Talmud. Chabad.org Chassidus is big into Zohar etc. שלום

[@effectingcause5484]

I think just based on probability, we should always expect to be about half way until doomsday. The universe should end or change significantly in about 14B yrs ish.

[@Inertia888]

I happen to be in my mid-forties, right now, so for my personal lifetime, this probability fits my lifetime. I am probably about halfway there. However, for most of my life, that was not the case. It's only a relatively small envelope of time that I am close to the halfway to the end point of my existence.

[@stevesalt8003]

Wow I actually understood. Great video.

[@Todss12]

WHAT? Why are you so calm about a possibly inevitable death? Omg, I can't. "At least it will be quick" HUH?!

[@spk_eze]

This is the very definition of something that you don't ever need to worry about 😂 It's also highly speculative given our current knowledge (for example, in the 1960s the solar neutrino problem had some people worrying the sun was extinguishing because we were measuring less neutrinos than we should have been and it turned out to be that we just didn't know neutrinos had mass and could change type!) so that's a double reason not to worry!

[@pinocleen]

No need to worry mate, all we need is: fire, air, earth, water and Milla Jovovich. Or alternatively, mix sprite, pineapple juice, rum and Southern Comfort, then add the 5th element: Everclear!

[@ManiBalajiC]

Universe will end, but I don't think any species Will live that long to experience it. Imagine a gamma ray burst which even if we detect now facing us have more probability of killing us and we cannot do anything about it.

[@spk_eze]

@@ManiBalajiC hahaha the gamma ray burst scenario may be even more plausible than false vacuum collapse! But probably not what @Todds wanted to hear 😂

[@Todss12]

@@spk_eze Except the fact that they said in their paper that it's possible it could've already started just freaks me out. I think it's because it sound like something you'd see in science fiction, but it's actually possible in real life. I just don't like that if it actually happens there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, it would be certain death. Unlike something like an asteroid which we could possibly prevent.

[@SyDatNguyen-r4j]

You can imagine that as a ball on a mountain. The mountain peak is exicted state, the valley between them is false vacuum, and the base camp is the true vacuum

[@burnerjack01]

Going out on a limb here, but, I think we might have more immediate concerns to worry about.

[@wholeNwon]

Sure, but it's not a matter of worrying; it's more about observing and reflecting in wonder.

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[@ArvinAsh]

Yes, absolutely we have a lot more immediate concerns. In fact, the death bubble is nothing to worry about at all. Not only is it unlikely but we have no control over it, so it never makes sense to worry about such things. The video was meant to educate and discuss the incredible science behind this theory.

[@manojpatankar6511]

i am fundamentaly physics faluer, your vidios make it easy to visualise and understand thanks

[@Paladin1873]

"This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper." T. S. Eliot from "The Hollow Men"

[@Starfire777]

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[@Paladin1873]

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[@proprotornut5389]

Such a fascinating video. Very enjoyable! 👍

[@fatherofhope]

Prior to this video's release I suggested a technological singularity may be our savior...... after watching it maybe a technological singularity would be the event that pushes the universe to this Lower Energy State 🤔😳😎

[@ArvinAsh]

Well the technological singularity would probably result in us having greater knowledge and know-how, but on its own, it would not be able to prevent this scenario, unless we can figure out a way to prevent it somehow.

[@fatherofhope]

Personally I believe Quantum tunneling is not all that mysterious, it's most likely due to particles slipping into dimensions yet unknown to us. And that the universe does have a lower energy state, but what I have to say next may be considered a little crazy, I believe this is where we (our conscious) come from before we're born & where we go to after we die. Because I've a very distant memory that presents itself as a dream of coming into existence, from something I can only explain as realities base, or base reality..... my feeble attempt at description: All bright brilliant white in all directions, but there are no directions anyway, a place that is not a place, no shape no form, zero sensation, no fear, no hate, no sadness, no happiness......... we'll never be able to describe what it's like to be one with base reality, only what it's like to not be completely assimilated with it. That's what I remember, but I've also suffered multiple traumatic brain injuries, maybe my neurons are misfiring 😎

[@Locreai]

A river in motion sometimes gets a tidal bore but it tends to return to a regular run. Even dropping in a boulder will produce a massive empty spot and a waves for a moment. It's my opinion that the universe is a ball rolling and will tend to or be more likely to just keep on, even if it suffers a hiccup or a twist and turn

[@p53k]

Could us humans resp. our particle accelerator experiments (which might be unique in the universe..) be the very cause for such fluctuation?

[@theotormon]

Didn't Hawking express concern about exactly this scenario and CERN?

[@p53k]

@@theotormon Oh, i didn't know there were knowledgeable person (in contrast to me..) that already expressed such (a quite fantasy-esque and not so "scientific" appearing) concern. It would fit the narrative that we humans not only can destroy earth (resp. its biosphere) but also the universe (or vast parts of it - considering its expanse). It also would be ironic (or even logic?) that the machine which helps us understand "big bang" (or whatever it was) also destroys everything in the moment of "reveal".

[@thenewkhan4781]

the energies we can generate for now are too small.

[@ArvinAsh]

LHC cannot reproduce energies anywhere near that of the Big Bang. Energies are many orders of magnitude lower, so nothing to worry about.

[@seraphik]

i love how he says that's coming up... RIGHT NOW

[@benahaus]

So then, is it the same end result as heat-death, just the accelerated version?

[@benahaus]

I think probably* Douglas Adams would have a thing or two to say about this. *Obscure pun intended

[@andrewpatton5114]

No, a vacuum decay would leave a new universe in its wake. It actually sounds a lot like 2 Peter 3:8-10.

[@benahaus]

@@andrewpatton5114 As do stories of any form of natural disaster. Just keep your fantasy out of the science class and out of City Hall and all will be fine.

[@JohnSmith20420]

Watching this while on vacation at the Grand Canyon 😳

[@ArvinAsh]

Be careful!

[@mwbgaming28]

If the bubble doesn't start at the speed of light, in theory we could see it before it hits us, depending on how quickly it reaches C, we could get one hell of a fireworks show before being obliterated

[@CaptnApathy]

If the death bubble really started in some far off place, wouldn't the expansion of the universe be fast enough that the bubble would never reach us? What if there's a death bubble just beyond the visible universe? Would that have any visible effect in the cmb? Like if it had started on the very edge of visible universe, but the expansion of space sped up fast enough to begin outpacing it's growth.

[@ArvinAsh]

If beyond visible universe, it probably wouldn't reach us. CMB would not be affected.

[@1973dineshkumar]

A copy of the Universe will be instantly made before any such catastrophe and we will be alive with all our consciousness in an alternate universe. So the many worlds theory could save us from the meta stable theory if any such event happens.

[@robjames4160]

Arvin, if you please, I have what might be a silly question, but your insight would be invaluable, as I am humbly attempting to understand... Is there a thought as to whether there is an underlying "foundational" field that is the backdrop for all the other fields? If so, could the Higgs field be the "foundational field" that provides the energy backbone to all the other quantum fields, or would it have to be something else? I've had this picture in my head that a fundamental particle like a quark is essentially a regional wave of energy in a particular field that develops a peak that rises above an energy threshold in it's respective field that then allows it to "combine" or "intertwine" with other energy points in other fields to create larger particles. Is that sort of on the right track? If so, would it stand to reason that there is still energy supporting each point (particle) in each of the fields that doesn't quite reach the threshold, and if that energy is rippling through the field below the threshold and bumps into another ripple, could it self-reinforce to form another particle "somewhere" else? Could the wave function be more than just a description of probability and describe an actual wave or ripple in the field? Could it describe the entire energy signature of the particle, including the energy rippling in the field but still below the "particle"-formation threshold? Could quantum tunneling be the energy peak of that energy ripple falling back into its field, being affected in some way, and then rebounding to crossing the particle-formation threshold in a completely different "place" because it has sufficient energy to, even though it's still the same ripple? Does that then mean that spacetime is an emergent property because the ripple isn't "moving" through actual space but through more of a "sub-space" that exists for that field but has no Spacetime dimensionality? Could that explain entanglement as well as non-locality? Could "particle decay" be described as a group of component particle energy points singluarly or collectively losing energy (and thus) cohesion with the others, disintegrating and falling back into the next convenient cohesive and energetically stable grouping of particles while releasing the particle point it no longer has the energy to hold on to back into its own field? I guess I'm asking if there's more to a particle in a field than just the particle that forms, and if the reason things are quantized is because each field has an energy threshold for the formation of a particle and none of the energy below the given threshold of any field interacts with anything other than itself. Is it possible that The Big Bang was the result of an energy "spike" in whatever the foundational field is, causing a cascade of field energy threshold crossings and subsequent combination reactions in the other fields? Would that initial spike have created the mechanism through which the other combining energy potentials would then be able to interact with/through at all (spacetime)? If so, since this property was emerging from a non-existent to an existent form, would that explain why spacetime expanded so rapidly at the Big Bang? Was it because It wasn't driven by a physical force of any kind so much as it was a resultant side-effect of the cascade of interactions that created the first energetic particles, the side-effect being the emerdence of a property that allowed them to interact at all - almost like it added context to the field interactions? Which brings me back to my original question - could there perhaps be an even more fundamental field that is basically just kind of like a zero-point energy field, and an oscillation in the standing energy noise in it is what resulted in The Big Bang - a self-reinforcing wave function that was then able to move to an extremely high energy state in the foundational field? Could Spacetime, and transitively Cosmic Inflation be a kind of field decay that is just the result of that foundational field losing energy to lower energy states in other fields? Would that explain why the expansion is accelerating, because as more and more energy drops into those other fields and forms particles, there is less and less energy in that hig-energy foundational field, and since Spacetime is emergent, gravity (a force borne of mass created in lower energy fields with lower energy interactions) simply doesn't have enough energy to restrict expansion? I really hope you read this. If you do, thank you so much. If you don't, I don't blame you. Either way, love your channel and always look forward to your videos.

[@u_t2347]

A black hole can pull matter in faster than the speed of light. Why doesn't this create a true vacuum apocalypse? After all it requires an infinite amount of energy to move matter at the speed of light never mind faster. An what is on the other end of that hole?

[@vainovartiainen4649]

I believe you can also think of gravitational acceleration as if the black hole is pulling space itself toward it. So the speed of a falling object compared to the space around it stays below c. Correct me if I'm wrong😅

[@spk_eze]

As I understand it, a black hole doesn't "suck in light", it warps space so much at the event horizon that any light or particle crossing it has no spacetime path available to it that crosses back out the event horizon. You can actually orbit a black hole above the event horizon indefinitely (provided your spaceship has fuel), so it's not "sucking" light in. It just keeps the light that enters it from ever escaping.

[@u_t2347]

@@spk_eze You are correct. The Earth doesn't "suck" you to the ground either. I'm guessing your talking about an imaginary spacecraft that is immune to the tidal forces of a black hole that rips stars an planets apart on approach? Perhaps has shields to protect it from all other debris that is falling into the event horizon or caught in orbit that is moving 99% the speed of light? (We think we have it bad with the debris in orbit around Earth) A supermassive black hole 40+ times larger than the one in the centre of the milky way you don't have to worry about tidal forces so much but you'd still have to be protected from matter falling in and the intense radiation emitted out from that matters death spiral. See Quasars. To keep a stable orbit the black hole would have to be spinning 100millionth of a percent shy from the speed of light itself or your orbit would decay an you'd fall in, unless of course you had imaginary engines that could fight it.

[@u_t2347]

@@vainovartiainen4649 I like to think of it more like a black star. It's not a vacuum cleaner but more a very heavy object. You wouldn't say the Earth is pulling space towards it but the Earth is warping spacetime. Big objects like a star we can see the gravitational lensing, a black hole is just the most extreme form. All we know for sure is that physics falls apart beyond the event horizon, who's to say the speed of the object is now not infinite?

[@seijirou302]

Another consideration, is there are regions of space receding at velocities greater than C, and we're immune to any true vacuum nucleation events anywhere that the C is not fast enough to reach us, which also includes some of the currently observable universe.

[@raykirushiroyshi2752]

What about quantum immortality, maybe this prevents the universe from being destroyed,at least from our perspective

[@therealshugon1353]

Here's the thing about that, If you are quantumly immortal, you will always remain conciouss, because the universe can't simulate unconsciousness, time splits and only the concious you can remember anything, if thats true then it's likely you'll probably never die because the universe won't allow that, if this is true then for some people that would be hell.

[@raykirushiroyshi2752]

@@therealshugon1353 no no, it's not like that, you will be saved by quantum imortality only if there's a **CHANCE** for this to happen. If there was no quantum event which lead to your death you will not be saved

[@therealshugon1353]

@@raykirushiroyshi2752 that's actually not how it's explained, quantum immortality doesn't need a quantum event to be activated, the theory has multiple plot points, like the theory of the Mandela effect, where some people think that when you die you slip into a parallel universe where you never died.

[@raykirushiroyshi2752]

@@therealshugon1353 what kind of wodoo bullshit is that, send me some links on some videos or papers about it

[@therealshugon1353]

@@raykirushiroyshi2752 I can't really post links because of youtubes filter, and the link I was going to show is from Wikipedia, but the definition says it's applicable for real world causes of death outside of quantum death.

[@dudleybrooks515]

The science fiction writer Greg Egan has a novel, Schild's Ladder, in which a bubble of "a different vacuum" or "a different quantum configuration of the Universe" nucleates and spreads. But in order to make a story even possible, i.e. in order for people to be aware of the approaching bubble and try to figure out what to do about it, he had to make the bubble expand at only half the speed of light.

[@J_Square]

If the universe is infinitely big then the bubble will knock our door in infinite time no matter if it travels at the speed of light. So, It won't matter either way.

[@spk_eze]

Not if that bubble occurs at a point in space that is receding from us faster than the speed of light!

[@malartbecomes236]

If it ends up being possible at all, this is the going to be the mechanism that enables inertial mass reduction, and possibly anti-gravity. If the universe is more stable than we are calculating, then wouldn't creating this bubble also massively warp spacetime from the energy used to maintain the process? Intuitively it seems like that region of space where the bubble is would be like bead of water surrounded by hydrophobic material.

[@PinkbubblegumPop]

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[@lipeshff]

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[@PinkbubblegumPop]

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[@Primitarian]

Just to make sure such a bubble isn't expanding our way, I propose we work on creating a bubble of our own to collide with and thus cancel out the incoming bubble.

[@lipeshff]

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[@technicaldifficultysupport]

Super uplifting conclusion.