Higgs Boson Seems To Prove That The Universe Doesn't Exist

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Higgs Boson Seems To Prove That The Universe Doesn't Exist

Brid-Aine Parnell
Forbes.com, June 24, 2014

None of us should be here. In fact, the whole world, the stars and the galaxies shouldn’t be here either – according to a new cosmological study, our whole Universe should have blinked out of existence an instant after it was first created.

Research from British cosmologists at King’s College London (KCL) suggests that the Universe shouldn’t have lasted for more than a second after the Big Bang, according to the Standard Model that’s suggested by the Higgs boson seen in 2012 along with recent astronomical observations.

After the Universe began in the Big Bang, it is theorised that it went through a short period of rapid expansion known as cosmic inflation. The Universe is still expanding today, but at a rather sedate pace astronomically-speaking. In the inflationary period, matter was flung outward at an exponential rate in all directions, rippling space-time into waves of gravitational energy as it went.

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The problem with BICEP2’s results is that they predict that the Universe would have received large jolts during the cosmic inflation phase, which would have pushed it into the other valley of the Higgs field within a fraction of a second. And that would have collapsed the entire nascent Universe in a Big Crunch.

“ This is an unacceptable prediction of the theory because if this had happened, we wouldn’t be around to discuss it! ” said Hogan, who is a PhD student at KCL and led the study.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2014/06/24/higgs-boson-seems-to-prove-that-the-universe-doesnt-exist/

Just when it seemed things couldn't get any weirder... Either way, I really am thankful we are here, wherever -- or whatever -- this here really is.