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The Vacuum of Space Will Decay Sooner Than Expected
One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change—changing everything.
In that case, the Higgs field should eventually tunnel to that state, or “decay.” This decay would start in one place and then spread, a spherical bubble growing at the speed of light, transforming the universe. According to these estimates, a cubic gigaparsec of space will see vacuum decay once every 10 794 years, or the digit 1 followed by 794 zeros—an absurd span of time. Recently, a group of physicists in Slovenia claimed to have found a small error in the calculation, one that quickens the end of the universe as we know it to 10 790 years, instead of 10 794.
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