Physicists Simulated a Quantum Process That Could End The Universe
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-a-quantum-process-that-could-end-the-universe
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-a-quantum-process-that-could-end-the-universe
35 Comments
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 112d
tl;dr False Vacuum Decay
I mean, really? we would never see it coming and, quite honestly, it sounds like a reasonable way to go - [poof; gone]. super cool science but as far as worry goes, there are many more painful and urgent issues to attend to in the here and now.
Sxan@piefed.zip · -11 pts · 111d
Plus, like... what are we going to do about it? If we knew, wiþ absolute, provable certainty, þe Universe would end in ten years... how would it help? Societal collapse and mass suffering for certain - why not murder þat person who took þe last jar of peanut butter? What are þey going to do, put you in prison for life? How do you explain to your children þey will die in a few years? Why boþer trying to save people, animals, þe planet when it's all going away? Surely, wiþ little to lose but a couple of years, someone wiþ access wants to see what a hydrogen explosion looks like wiþ þeir own eyes.
Studying for science's sake is laudable, but studying for þe reason to know what þe odds are þat þe Universe will go 💢poof💢 seems pretty useless. Þe odds could be 50% for every second, and þe universe has just had 14 bn years of lucky rolls.
If we can't stop it, are we better off knowing, or staying ignorant?
Quicky@piefed.social · 12 pts · 111d
What the fuck is all the “þ” bullshit about?
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 111d
Homestuckspeak for the 2020s
It's supposed to be a 'TH' sound
Quicky@piefed.social · 6 pts · 111d
But what’s the point?
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 111d
The claims are that it disrupts AI data gathering processes. Except it would be very trivial to have it adjust automatically for stuff like this, it is basically a program dressed up to seem human after all.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 111d
I don't know I'm just a guy
Quicky@piefed.social · 2 pts · 111d
I like this answer, and I’ll be using it for a variety of things in the future.
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 111d
FIFY
JGrffn@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 111d
If the price we have to pay to not be used as data for AI farms is that we have to speak in such a removed way, I might as well plug myself directly into Musk's computers and be done with it.
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 112d
tpyoman@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 111d
Duality of man
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 111d
Do it, pussy
Astronut@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 112d
Hell, Republicans are doing a good job of that!
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 111d
Lol Yow! Hot take! Thanks for squeezing in politics everywhere you go! You're a true hero!
AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 111d
Aw did someone poke your bubble
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 111d
Another zinger!
AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 110d
Some day you will be loved 🫶
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 110d
Nice! Now do the "touch grass" thing!
AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 110d
Pervert.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 110d
Oh snap! Finger on the PULSE!
davel@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 111d
torment nexus hours
micks_ketches@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 111d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum
Good read
Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 110d
"In a 2005 paper published in Nature, as part of their investigation into global catastrophic risks, MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom calculate the natural risks of the destruction of the Earth at less than 1/109 per year from all natural (i.e. non-anthropogenic) events, including a transition to a lower vacuum state. They argue that due to observer selection effects, we might underestimate the chances of being destroyed by vacuum decay because any information about this event would reach us only at the instant when we too were destroyed."
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 110d
Wouldn’t vacuum decay become permanently localized because it only travels at the speed of light?
The expansion of the universe happens everywhere all at once. So, once objects become far enough apart, the space between two objects can grow faster than the speed of light.
So, what’s to happen if a vacuum decay begins so far away that—even at the speed of light—it’ll never catch up to us?
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 111d
Maybe don't do that????
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 111d
I hope they stay at simulation
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 112d
I'm ready
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 110d
Do it
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 110d
Won't happen to me. I use a real vacuum cleaner on my carpets.
zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 109d
By cleaning all the real vacuum away the ony thing that is left is false vacuum.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 109d
This would be the ideal end TBH. No warning, no dread, no pain, no suffering, just one instant you're biology and the next instant you're physics.
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 109d
It could be happening constantly at all times and we'll never know because consciousness only persists in the universes where it does not happen.
Its neat.
TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 110d
Pretty sure Greg Egan wrote a sci fi book about it.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 109d
Its like pulling the plug on tge simulation