Illuminatus Primus wrote:I believe hearing about in the open universe theory the possibility of a phase transition in the cosmic vacuum energy. (no that is not technobabble)
That if there's a lower stable state of the vacuum energy, quantum theory might demand that at some point in the universe, someday, it might be more likely the vacuum existed in the lower energy. A phase transition in the cosmic vacuum energy would transform the universe and change the laws of physics in its wake, if I remember correctly.
HUH??
Nitram, slightly high on cough syrup: Do you know you're beautiful?
Me: Nope, that's why I have you around to tell me.
Nitram: You -are- beautiful. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise kill them.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP" -- Leonard Nimoy, last Tweet
Emperor of the Centauri (on his death bed): I must know, how will it end?
Kosh: In Fire
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
Shinova wrote:Before this phantom energy thing came around, it's been said that when the universe expands far enough, subatomic particles would become the size of planets or something.
That's a misinterpretation of the expansion of the universe. Things don't grow in size - bits of the universe just drift apart from one another.
Yes, in the far, far future, a subatomic particle will be bigger than the hunk of rock we live on. Interesting.
Well, the planet would have grown as well, if it were true.
Illuminatus Primus wrote:I believe hearing about in the open universe theory the possibility of a phase transition in the cosmic vacuum energy. (no that is not technobabble)
That if there's a lower stable state of the vacuum energy, quantum theory might demand that at some point in the universe, someday, it might be more likely the vacuum existed in the lower energy. A phase transition in the cosmic vacuum energy would transform the universe and change the laws of physics in its wake, if I remember correctly.
HUH??
What I think he's talking about:
The vacuum has a lowest possible energy state, its a fraction about absolute zero. I read somewhere (in an article listing "possible" ways for us to be killed) that if a lower stable state were achieved, the excess energy would be released and "fry" everybody. But I can't remember how much energy we're talking about. Probably find it on google somewhere.
