There’s a worrying problem with the ‘ Higgs field ’ – the energy field that gives particles their mass. It seems to be dangerously close to having an inherent instability. In the absence of particles, ...

Scientists in Europe have successfully simulated a process known as false vacuum decay, a hypothetical event that could one day spell the end of the universe. The experiment, carried out using ...

Bubbling away: In the quantum gases lab in Trento, the team produced a superfluid spin mixture of sodium atoms in a false vacuum state (blue) and observed and studied its decay to the true vacuum ...

Black holes, the enigmatic end-products of stellar collapse and pivotal cosmological objects, have long intrigued theoretical physicists through their intricate interplay with quantum fields. A ...

Of all the possible ends of the universe, vacuum decay would be the most thorough. The universe is going to end. But of all the possible ends of the universe vacuum decay would have to be the most ...

Eventually, the vacuum of space will decay, and things will fall apart—in a zillion years. Our universe is glued together by quantum fields, like the Higgs, which set much of our physics. Revising ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. Sure, an asteroid could destroy a city or wipe out life on Earth. A supernova ...

In new preprint research, scientists in Slovenia have adjusted a calculation to determine how long we have before the vacuum of space decays. While this date is still an extraordinarily long time into ...