167. False Vacuum | THUNK
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- What does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle have to do with a quantum apocalypse that could unmake the universe at any moment?
Links for the Curious
“Local Maxima,” by THUNK - • 165. Local Maxima | THUNK
“Understanding the Uncertainty Principle,” by PBS Spacetime - • Understanding the Unce...
Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density - an Overview of Possible Scenarios (Margan, 2008) - www-f9.ijs.si/~...
What's the Energy Density of the Vacuum? (Baez, 2011) _ math.ucr.edu/ho...
“Zero Point Energy Demystified,” by PBS Spacetime - • Zero-Point Energy Demy...
“Are Virtual Particles Real?” by Gordon Kane - www.scientific...
“The Vacuum Catastrophe,” by PBS Spacetime - • The Vacuum Catastrophe
“The Casimir Effect & Black Holes,” by Sixty Symbols - • Casimir Effect & Black...
You're the first person that's explained the casimir effect to me in a way I understood.
Glad to hear it! 😁
What timing! I was just researching this today!
I've heard multiple explanations of this before, but this one is particularly good. "Vacuum meta stability event" is a pretty cool phrase, too.
Thank you very much! :D And isn't it??
I like these instantaneous apocalypse scenarios. Stranglets from kurzegesagt and now this
Kurzegesagt actually did a (beautifully animated, obvs) video about the same phenomenon! Check out the link in the description! :D
One of the things I love about science is the random tiny, absurdly unlikely but devastatingly effective apocalypses you learn about, like vacuum meta-stability events.
Then there's the massive unavoidable ones that are so far off our human brains can't possibly worry about them but will absolutely wreck us eventually, like the super massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
They're so much more fun than the mundane, boring ones we're likely to experience ourselves and probably could do something about fixing. I mean...Generalised AI being able to replace such a significant portion of the work force that it triggers an economic collapse only compounded by spiralling living costs as runaway climate change decreases the amount of arable land to a point where food, water and shelter become truly scarce resources again? Yawnariffic...
What? Why no, I have no idea what the term creeping existential terror means, why do you ask?
Before I sleep I always thank my spoopy virtual particle buddies for staying wells behaved and not causing a vacuum meta-instability event
So would the bubble be a sort of a black hole, with all the energy that is freed in the collapse pulling everything around it inside by it's gravity?
I'm not sure - I'm not an astrophysicist. YET.
A good discussion of the possibility of a vacuum metastability event can be listened to in episode 7 ("Physics Experiments") of The End of the World with Josh Clark, a podcast about the various existential threats that humanity may face in the next century or two. I highly recommend giving the series a listen.
Link?
@@mwbgaming28 The podcast is on all of the major podcast streaming applications. Here's a link to it on apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-end-of-the-world-with-josh-clark/id1437682381
Fun stuff! Thank you
Wouldn't it be possible to use quantum mechanics as a sort of detector for this vacuum metastability event?
like set up a series of "space pingers" a device that can interact with some particles that are entangled with particles on earth in a way that we can determine if the pinger has been destroyed or not, then space them out so there's a pinger every couple of lightyears, so as the true vacuum destroys the pingers, we will see their entangled particles are no longer being manipulated, and we will know that something bad is heading our way at or near light speed
As for what we will do with this information, well IDK, maybe we have warp drives by then and we can run away to the other side of the galaxy
excellent explanation
Did you change the video lighting or something? I liked it!
Thanks! I did shuffle some lights into slightly different places...and boosted the brightness in post.../scribblescribblescribble
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The voide does not stay empty for long, my friend. Instantly, it would be a new biggining.
What is time for the voide? Nothing (more than a hypothesis.)
What is the voide for time? Also nothing. Time can't measure emptiness
Soooooo ... was the "Big Bang" one of those events?
Any good particle physicist should try to trigger a vacuum decay.
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This might be the only science concept that has not yet been explored by science fiction, am I right?
Per en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum
"Such an event would be one possible doomsday event. It was used as a plot device in a science-fiction story in 1988 by Geoffrey A. Landis,[20] in 2000 by Stephen Baxter,[21] in 2002 by Greg Egan in his novel Schild's Ladder, and in 2015 by Alastair Reynolds in his novel Poseidon's Wake."
I personally don't like how people keep bringing up virtual particles. They're perfectly valid ways of looking at things, but only if you already subscribe to the consistent histories interpretation of quantum physics.
On the other hand, instead of virtual particles, one can see it as quantum fields having different ways of vibrating, which is compatible with every other interpretation.
Typically, vacuum decay is explained in terms of the current value of the Higgs field being a false vacuum, and if it decays to the true vacuum state, it would stop interacting with massive particles by default, and since massless particles travel at the speed of light, off we fly.
Particles are just low-entropy energy.
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