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The Universe As We Know It May End Sooner Than Expected(hackaday.com)

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floofloof@lemmy.ca
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Clickbaity title. The estimated time until Higgs field decay has been changed from 10794 years to 10790 years. Presumably there’s some tiny chance of it happening today, but practically we can just continue worrying about all the regular stuff that is about to kill us all.

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somtwo@lemmy.world
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Also, from what I understand, we wouldn’t see it coming (as the decay would be spreading at the speed of light), and everything would be over before our senses could ever detect anything out of the ordinary.

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kinkles@sh.itjust.works
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😍

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Mayor Poopington@lemmy.world
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ugh i was hoping it would be before this election

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x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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What election?

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This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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drspod@lemmy.ml
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That’s a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

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floofloof@lemmy.ca
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It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.

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henfredemars@infosec.pub
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It’s like if I became 10,000 times less attractive. Same thing.

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pyre@lemmy.world
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it’s still a concern for biden

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thefartographer@lemm.ee
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Is it more than 3?

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Shard@lemmy.world
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Its more like 0.5% difference.

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yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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Not really, the new value is 0.0001% of the old.

Just because the number has barely fewer digits doesn’t mean it’s barely smaller

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rtxn@lemmy.world
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Guess I’m not spending that Christmas with my family after all…

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expatriado@lemmy.world
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we’ll find out who was right then

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