Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday?

astroengine writes "If calculations of the newly discovered Higgs boson particle are correct, one day, tens of billions of years from now, the universe will disappear at the speed of light, replaced by a strange, alternative dimension one theoretical physicist calls boring. 'It may be that the universe we live in is inherently unstable and at some point billions of years from now it's all going to get wiped out. This has to do with the Higgs energy field itself,' Joseph Lykken, with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said. 'This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe.'"

Meh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing of value will be lost.

Doomsday News

[Niterios]

News and science channels never waste a second when it comes to predicting doomsday.

Re:Doomsday News

[Anonymous Coward]

That is at least one thing they have in common with bigots.

bizzare

[darkob]

So Douglas Adams nailed it when he wrote that the universe would be replaced with something bizzare, whereas others believe that it alreaty happened.

Is this the effect of, perhaps, global warming?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-anchor-asks-bill-nye-if-global-warming-had-anything-to-do-with-a-near-earth-asteroid/ [mediaite.com]

Re:Seriously?

[d33tah]

...oh wait, he won't be able to.

Only a few billion years?

[mark-t]

I'm sort of suprised by this... I always thought that the universe, at 13.8 billion years, probably had several trillion to go. Now I find out that it's really just middle aged?

Don't worry

[Anonymous Coward]

This particle has already been banned in Kansas.

Re:How is this different than Big Bang standard mo

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the Big Bang Theory was going to end with Penny and Leonard's Wedding. Or possibly the birth of Sheldon and Amy's alien love-child.

Re:Crap!

[camperdave]

How about they keep their cotton picking nose out of it for once. They are the arrogant branch of a dysfunctional government of a petty country on a backwater planet circling an unregarded yellow star in the unfashionable arm of a rather ordinary spiral galaxy. This is quite plainly out of their jurisdiction.

Re:Get in line

[jhoegl]

So you are saying there is a raptor zombie Jesus?

Re:No

[OakDragon]

you do realize that this is a place for discussion so headlines that provoke conversation and debate are appropriate?

No.

Re:Get in line

[funwithBSD]

Smart girl.

Typical.

[grumling]

Figures the week I make an offer on a house this has to come out. They could have let me live in blissful ignorance for a few days, but NOOOOOO!

Damn Realtors and their lies about owning my own little part of the universe, forever if I want she said. LIES! FALSE WITNESS!

And screw the HOA if they think I'm going to waste the short time I'm here on lawn maintenance.

Higgs Bosun walks into a church

[Anonymous Coward]

So a Higgs Bosun walks into a church. The priest says "we don't allow Higgs Bosuns in here."

To which the Higgs Boson replies, "but without me, how can you have mass?"

Re:Nay doomsayer...

[Anonymous Coward]

If we finally evolve beyond primal tribal and religious bickering,

I know if those stupid Emacs people would just let go and join us real programmers who use VI then we could get on to more important things.

Re:Chance unknown

[dcollins117]

I'm still trying to find signs of intelligent life here on earth.