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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an intriguing idea behind what’s known as False Vacuum Decay – something that may have created our universe but also something that can one day destroy it as well
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_v…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156…
#cosmology #physics #falsevacuumdecay

0:00 Can the universe just end?
1:30 The basics: empty space is not empty
3:00 Can universe have an even lower energy state?
3:50 Bubble nucleation and how it would happen
4:40 It would be instant
5:00 What needs to happen to make these bubbles
5:30 First experimental evidence of vacuum decay
7:00 This explains so much
8:00 Conclusions
9:30 Is gravity preventing this from happening? And how black holes come into play

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