3 points

Hooray!

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That could solve a lot of my problems.

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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Time to end it! In….how many years, you say? sigh

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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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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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38 points

😍

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25 points

ugh i was hoping it would be before this election

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18 points

That’s a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

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17 points

It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.

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11 points

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

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2 points

it’s still a concern for biden

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5 points

Is it more than 3?

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Its more like 0.5% difference.

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5 points

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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5 points

Guess I’m not spending that Christmas with my family after all…

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5 points

we’ll find out who was right then

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51 points

Thank god

10^790 years

Dang

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To write that out in full: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. Which looks like I just held ctrl+v until it seemed suitably silly.

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the question is whether you actually did that but i can’t be fucked to check it

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I was going to say it’s way shorter than it should be, but then I realised Alexandrite renders it wrong and it spills under the community info tab and presumably far beyond the edge of my monitor.

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8 points

So close yet so far

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Well, I guess we’ll still end first

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Vermin doesn’t end. Even if you exterminate it, they’ll just come back with a vengeance

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