_There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the _*_Higgs Field_*_ is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable._ _There is another theory which states that this has already happened._ ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Paraphrased)
Not only has it already happened but it may have happened already infinite times. The likelyhood that anything that exists would exist is about zero. It is very unlikely that men exist; it is very unlikely that life exists; it is very unlikely that the universe as such exists. But all this exists. It is the anthropological principle. We and all the stuff around do exist unless we could not realize that it exists. All this exists due to evolution. Darwin is universal. Everything that is not sustainable and resilient will disappear. Only the fittest will sustain: The fittest plants, bacterias, viruses, kinds of humans and universes. And this may be the reason why the universe may not disappear so soon. It is a result of evolution and would have disappeared for long if it would not be kind of stable. We as men do not exist very long. We still have to make proof that we are stable enough to live on and develope further.
I superheated water once when I was a kid. I hadn't used the microwave to boil water before. It was in a Pyrex measuring cup and wouldn't boil.. I kept extending the time because I'd open the door and... Nothing. I finally pulled the cup out of the microwave, stuck a spoon in it and the water exploded all over. Only some of it hit me. It was pretty hot. :)
I did that deliberately once in a very clean mug, and triggered it at arms length with a long wooden spoon and some salt while wearing rubber gloves. Scared me, and I'm fearless. 0/10 will not repeat.
I remember hearing about some postgrad students accidentally superheating several litres of pure water in a large round bottom flask. When they realised this they turned off the heat, tip-toed out of the lab, locked the door, put a warning sign on the door and took the rest of the day off. One of them told me that they thought a small, but nasty, explosion would have occurred if it had been bumped.
once you figure out that water actually gets pretty hot pretty quickly in the microwave you no longer make that mistake. lol i find that 90 seconds is plenty for even my massive 20oz coffee cup to go from cold to almost undrinkably hot even with refrigerated milk. i usually hit 1 minute and thats good enough. although i have not yet mastered cooking rice in the microwave.. ive done it a few times but am always scared to go the full twenty minutes just because of how much evaporation occurs and how hot the shit gets lol.
Lol I did something similar when I took the water out I was like it has to be hot enough so I dropped the dry noodles in and it started boiling out of control instantly lol I was terrified and I ran away because I thought I would get in trouble for making a huge mess
I am a human made from the same coagulated time and energy that's currently in you and the screen you're looking at this comment through. We were once fused together in a giant nuclear reactor that was the first star that existed roughly where our current planet and sun are now. The air you breath was once in my lungs, the water you drink was once a part of my body, the carbon in the food you eat was once in the food I ate, the time you are experiencing right now is in contact with me, and when you look up at the sky at the stars you are seeing things that once existed that for all we know became part of living things like us long ago.
Don't worry, because the collapse spreads with the speed of light, as long as the collapse happens outside of our observable universe, it will never reach us!
@@timbergel8147 Oh, sure. Everything's just fine for 13 billion years. And then one day, Cousin Jimbo burns a pot roast and the whole universe implodes.
On the up side, if we are in a false vacuum and it decays to a lower energy state, it should propagate at the speed of light, so we'll never even know that it happened.
@@Terran.Marine.2 Yes, obviously he said and thinks of 2013 it just when he said 2013 the "n" is inaudible and without n 2013 sounds exactly like 2030. xD
The five scholars have all worked on the idea of a field giving particles mass. The were authors of three separate papers, but not coauthors of Peter Higgs who was a sole author. Only his paper mentioned a boson and this is why it is named after him.
Remember in the double slit experiment we found that energy only exists as a particle when observed. We exist because the universe needs observers. The Higgs field analogy is spot-on: that watched pot won't boil.
Maybe it did destroy the known universe. Because let’s be honest. Since the Higgs Boson was discovered. Our reality we are currently experiencing. Feels like the damn twilight zone.
7:02 I look forward to our first warp drive experiment introducing an impurity into the Higgs Field and collapsing the phase state of the entire universe.
The most apparent answer would be: Because we lack the proper understanding of the universe to make any calls regarding its existence. It is there. That is ALL we know.
That explains The BearnstAin Bears that everyone thought was the BearnstEin Bears. It was all a primordial black hole induced phase transition of the Higgs Boson Field.
In the reality I'm from, they're called The Brownstain Bears, and Biggy Bosons, respectively. Also, Nelson Mandela was a Nobel laureate for theoretical physics.
there is only 1 blackh ole and it is situated at the central northern vortex of creation, one of only 2 places on flat earth they ban people from going to: the north pole, Hyperboria.
False Vacuum Decay: "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light." _"Total protonic reversal!"_ --Ghostbusters
Assuming false vacuum decay is possible and that it follows the description given here it might be closer to a one dimension collapsing down into another which would also explain why string theory describes dimensions as high as 24 in some cases. Basically something happens and the higher level collapses into the lower then again and again until you get what we have now. On a side note things get strange because we should under this principle have the ability to either make this reexpand into a higher dimension or drop down and if we or something else were to use it as a weapon it would start a slowly spreading cascade across the universe and it would absolutely cause extreme energy events.
In the words of the great Richard Feynman -> "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it (your idea) doesn't agree with experiment (observed reality), it's wrong."
Feynman's presumption here is that current experimental technique is adequate to test theory. It's never been true and it's not true now. So take that, Richard.
That other guy. "You all know what I did to save you all, and you will worship me forever for doing it." Judas: In Ramanujan Summation, -1/12 = all numbers to infinity. Minus one of 12 apostles creates the universe... YAY!
What really blows my mind is if the "big bang" was actually a Higgs Field phase shift from a previous universe. I have no idea if that's possible, but it's certainly a provocative thought
This is based on my very limited knowledge, but I didn't think the big bang could be a type of vacuum decay or field phase shift because all evidence points to the universe being nearly infinitely small at the moment of the big bang. The CMB alone points to a much smaller and rapidly expanding early universe. A phase shift wouldn't result in the universe becoming infinitely small - if a phase shift occurred today, it would expand into the universe at its current size, and the post-shift universe would show signs of having shifted while the universe was already large. Maybe a phase shift occurred in the very early universe, but it would've been a separate, distinct event from the big bang.
It is supposed the universe has near infinite room to expand into, which is a totally different thing, there is no proof the universe in its current state is near infinitely large, it is only as large as we can observe it, as unobserved particles are in a wave function state on a quantum level
@@zladut while I understand that idea, my theory was grounded on the perhaps misinformed thought that everything was gravitationally bound in a much stronger Higgs field which would explain why it's a small relative to today. Of course I could be totally off base as you said I just thought it was cool
That wouldn't really work well with dark energy. The expansion rate of the universe is accelerating while we expect a false vacuum decay to remain constant at the speed of light.
Perhaps, IF the inflation period was indeed related to a change in the Higgs field, and IF primordial black holes were the cause of the shift, that event also wiped all primordial black holes from existence, thus making it impossible for it to happen again? Or at least impossible to happen again with primordial black holes triggering the shift.
I guess it all depends on what primordial black holes were like when the higgs was more 'dense' and ...wait...what if they were 'primordial impurities' until the phase shift changed enough that they would no longer have mass enough to be impurities and that's where it stopped?
He's going to have to address it IN VIDEO. Its the only way. I'm not sure what to think but enough people think he was hacked that its probably the prudent thing to do. PS where the hell are his Patreons? Surely he would have said something to them and we'd hear about it.
Maybe the Higgs Boson destroyed the part of the universe that was required to exist for the Higgs Boson to destroy the universe, and since that part of the universe no longer exists, we have been spared.
@@geigertec5921 "Maybe the Higgs Boson destroyed the part of the universe that was required to exist for the Higgs Boson to destroy the universe" The wreckage left could be dark matter and dark energy, depending on which side of the e=mc^2 equation it happened to be on at the time.
The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave! Nicola Tesla states, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration” Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles, and creates our experience-able Universe. Max Planck states: "Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from Consciousness". Life is the Infinite Consciousness, experiencing the Infinite Possibilities, Infinitely. We are "It", experiencing our infinite possibilities in our finite moment. Our job is to make it interesting!
shh, dont say that too loudly, for it'll destroy their Einsteinian world view and it will literally fall apart, their fake world, that is. Tesla is thee only scientist worth listening to and his entire work was based on the flat earth science we now all know.
I watch you every night and look forward to learning new things. This is probably my favourite episode so far (so hard to pick a favourite!). The concept of the universe undergoing a phase shift at any moment is a fantastic idea. When we are dealing with infinity, I suppose that anything can happen. Maybe it has happened already billions of times! Cheers
If the universe is going to someday phase change us out of existence, we can't do a damn thing about it, so live as it will never happen. Help people, pet dogs, and be genuine. Be wonderful like Anton.
...which is the only sensible attitude towards death. so i'm bewildered by the number of people who accept they will cease to exist within a few decades, never to come back, but feel the need to get worked up by the death of their species or their universe over longer time scales
This is a potential explanation for the Fermi paradox: The aliens know, so they're home being nice to each other, petting alien dogs, and avoiding Earth at all costs.
@@scott6129 because it's not real. It's incomprehensible maths created by people who want to feel superior and claim they understand what no man can hope to comprehend. There's energy that flows forever, gets compressed and fused into elements that decay, transmutation and so forth, and then the decay products are fused again, and again, forever and ever. The universe is a living being and we're part of it. There's no big bang, no big crunch, the universe won't expand to the point of oblivion. Relax, we're in good hands.
Ironically the only way humanity has been able to achieve all that we have achieved is because we have done so as a collective intelligence with no man or woman being smart enough to build, do, or understand anything much at all, but if all of us can understand .0001% of something than we can collectively know 100% IF and that's a very big IF we share what we know with eachother.
@@gerardwalker2159 Since so few ppl have seen and studied the data which confirmed the higgs boson and everything we know about it we can ask if it's possible all this is just confirmation bias.
Hello Anton The Higgs Boson might have already taken the Cosmos with it, just like the amount of time it takes the light from a star to reach us, it might take an "almost" infinite time for the death of the Cosmos to reach everything that is contained in the Cosmos, a sure sign would be the stars in our neck of the woods suddenly disappearing
If the bubble of new Physics expands at light speed you won't see anything disappearing until everything does. If the new physics has a lower speed of light then you might get a warning.
@@crabby7668 Even if the speed of light is faster inside the bubble of New Physics it still has to expand through the Current Physics space where the current speed of light holds.
@@noob19087 Because like us they came up with the theory decades or centuries before they had the capacity to build a collider large enough and then they decided "Nah lets not do that"
I trust, Anton, that when a Higgs Field phase shift occurs, you will be covering the event! Apart from which, if a future phase shift occurs it will unravel the universe at a quantum level. And since time is fairly immaterial at that level, it would have already unravelled backwards by now. Thanks for another fascinating production!
Having just had a 2 hour discussion about the cosmic terror that is the Boötes void, the thought of living inside a Higgs field bubble that can pop at any moment is really comforting :/
True. You KNOW things when you have too little knowledge to realize how little is even possible to actually know. Once you learn, you only suspect things.
@@catpoke9557 No, accumulating enough (not little) knowledge helps you realize how much is still left to be known. Once you truly know a discipline as much as we have discovered about it, is when you can truly investigate further.
Anton's channel is the great's channel on YT for space and curiosity!!! 💯 Fantastic explanations, very genuine and knowledgeable, I freak love this dude!!! Thx bro!
Here's an idea I came up with. Assume that the universe is cyclic in some way: the "death" of an old universe results in the "birth" of a new universe. Also note that our perception is our reality. What is the behavior of time from the perspective of a being that is dying? It flows faster and faster, eventually reaching infinitely fast once the being dies. Infinitely many universes may be created and destroyed within the span of you being dead, until one is created in which you are alive to perceive the flow of time again. Thus, from their own perspective, no being can truly die.
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There was a new arxiv paper last week slightly modifying the probability of the phase change to a more stable state. There are large uncertainties but it was still something like a probability of 10^-200 in a 1 Giga parsec volume per billion years (assuming no impurities). Either way, the chances were so low that other End of the Universe events are more significant.
Man this one would be an amazing Sci fi horror/drama where they discover phase change and they are trying to figure out if there is any way possible to prevent this (and of course they kind of do but they kind of don't so at the end of the movie, the world and the universe ends up in complete mess with some complete new physics that the human kind has to figure out and make work with again but the life as it is survived (BARELY) ). And out of that first movie the second movie is born where human kind discovered some amazing and some deadly new physics where it allowed them to transition quickly into civilization type 2 on kardashev scale (in matter of century)... Man this movie franchise is mad as hell in my head. :D
We don't see those in distant universe, because the first thing we would see is a wall of true vacuum hitting our eyeballs. Anthropic principle at its finest.
I remember an uncle who is heavily into conspiracies and such told me “That boson will create a black hole, end us, and open a portal to hell” Let’s just say watching the title for this video gave me a chuckle.
Any change that happens will travel at the speed of light. So even if it happens somewhere it would have to be really close before we could see anything at all.
One observation of the Higgs particle is not proof of it when you count how many times they attempted to find it. The LHC can't even use hard drives to record the experiments because they would fill the hard drives too fast. They literally have to use reel to reel tape drives. The total amount of information they have already recorded can't even be observed by humans, because you would have to start looking at the data when you were born and would be dead long before you completed the goal. So everday they go thu the process of looking at the data that they have. And they found one example in hundreds of thousands of attempts, if not millions.
The universe is constantly collapsing everywhere all the time - but it’s many worlds and we only are there to observe in the universes that did not collapse.
I just ascended, and now move in a diagonal temporal direction while my conciousness displays a holographic rendering on the traditional trajectory of the firmament after reading this comment, I am beyond time and consideration and have attained virtual godhood in my realm via the knowledge you have wrought. Thanks homie.
@@berndepauw4932 yes my feet are most certainly grounded in this abyss. Very sturdy are the feet holders of the void. We have done this endlessly unfortunately. Can't have shit in Detroit, as so with the dimensionless corridors of temporarility
When I and everything I care about are suddenly gone, I expect the caring part to be gone, too. Should I care about that, and if I do, wouldn't that care also be gone?
If the vacuum was metastable it would have already decayed due to high energy events such as cosmic rays. Which means that the absence of these decays should be a smoking gun for new physics.
@@CoroDanThe total energy of a cosmic ray is small when compared to a whole supernova but for example the oh my god particle with 3x10^20 eV of energy in the size of a proton is extremely energy dense
Having studied this a little myself, I think that the primordial black holes are what created the first phase change. That is, they are/were there, but now have all evaporated. Fun fact - apparently what we can see of the Universe is a small area compared to its actual size, due to how extremely red shifted everything is. Up to 250x larger than what we can currently see due to this initial expansion. Some theories suggest that we are in one smaller lower energy state bubble as well, where space and physics operate differently. ie - it reads as "quasi-stable" because of most of what's around it still being in the other state and has a small effect, still on us. Note that the next lower "Stable" areas could exist as well and would easily explain things such as dark matter. We can't "see" it because the physics itself has already changed in those areas. It might not even fully coexist with the current three dimensions as we know them.
Transition from the metastable state to the true vacuum could occur via quantum tunneling, a process where particles can 'jump' from one state to another without passing through intermediate states. If this happened, the universe as we know it could be destroyed.
One cannot understand one's own death. How does a the mind know when the heart and brain stops if there is no signal being sent or recieved? Our everyday lives are technically a simulation of the things in reality within our own minds.
A community post so out of character that most of your subs worry you were hacked. Your viewers know you too well Anton, you'll have to say something I'm afraid - on video. I think it was poking fun at the most irrelevant sponsorship ever but this day and age, who knows.
I heard the hypothesis that the great attractor is exactly the place where the Higgs field shifted and everything acquired cyclopean masses, even an ordinary electron will weigh a lot or whatever it turns into
He got a nobel prize in 2030? Anton confirmed to be a time traveller...? 😅 (Yes, I know it was just a slip of the tongue, but the chance was just too good to pass up!)
Because "WE" are needed to keep the Spiritual/Physical Universe in balance. WE are Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Damn! Now where is my Superhero outfit?
Anton, I love how your strange and wonderful sense of humor comes out and shines on us once in a while, as at the end of today's presentation. Awesome!
I think the whole universe was both created and destroyed at the same moment and we are currently living in that infinently tiny moment, and the only reason we perceive it as having time longer than a moment is because the universe created the illusion of time when it came into existence, but this only applies to things in it that capable of perceiving time, if there was no living things to percieve the time then time wouldn't exist at all because it would be over.
@@geigertec5921I've come to this conclusion as well, I don't think we can avoid this perspective; yet to be useful however, as we don't know if our universe is contained or all there is. Do big bangs happen locally in relatively small areas of a much bigger spacetime or does it involve all spacetime? Limits on light make even this hard to discern. We obviously assume it's not local but when we can only interact locally... Maybe truly massive, observable universe amounts of energy in a much more massive universe could produce big bang like super novae that are bigger than locaility? Maybe it was even a weapon in which we evolved inside the explosion of? Just speculating... I'm unaware of what proves that the boundary of the big bang has to be universal and not just somewhere bigger than local and smaller than universal. I know there's logical assumptions but that's it. Why wouldnt there be time and space outside the boundary event, the big bang, if the "whole" universe, even if for a moment, truly exists? To have this perspective would require space and time outside the event to be real as well. I think the real boundary is on our brains pertaining to the concept of the infinite as opposed to nothingness. I think infinite is more likely than nothing. The question that irks me is, "was the boundary event natural?" Is it part of a cycle, an oscillating wave? Or was there intentional massive scale chaos creation by things we did not evolve to be able to imagine? Sorry for the consciousness stream, curiosity triggered.
I’ve always loved universal superfluid / phase transition theories…water expanding as it transitions to ice being analogous to the sudden expansion of the universe.
lol I did that with a little glass of water, tap water that is.... heated it in the micro, forgot about it until I heard a bang and found out that the door to the micro had blown open and the whole micro was dripping inside... yea, I got a bit scared.... So it seems you do not need perfectly "clean" water to gain that effect.
I've only had it happen once. Brought about 150 mL of water to a boil multiple times (at least twice) without removing it. Loud bang but that was about it.
The fundamental element of the Higgs filed theory is the field, not the boson. The boson is merely a manifestation of a disturbance of the field that proves its existence.
This is why I never studied physics. I understood on an instinctual level that it was a waste of time, because the Higgs field was just going to phase shift and everything I'd learned would wrong.
Hey Anton, huge fan and long time subscriber here. Random question - are you aware that your channel posted a sponsored ad for Chinese breast pumps using terrible grammar earlier today? Just curious/concerned that this video came out 8 hours later and the post is still there as of 1am EST.
when you think about all the different types of events and things that occur in the universe, and how long its all been happening.. its hard to consider this worthy of worrying about.
Fascinating stuff. I kinda like metastable materials and similar materials - in general, the idea that something could change entirely due to its structure is really cool. A lot of really important aspects of life, and a lot of the strongest materials we all work with, have special attributes due to their structure - carbon, steel, water... and maybe the universe itself.
_There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the _*_Higgs Field_*_ is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable._
_There is another theory which states that this has already happened._
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Paraphrased)
Nice
I was just thinking that I would need to be at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe to watch this phase transition happen lol
All good though I got my Towel 🐙🤙
Not only has it already happened but it may have happened already infinite times. The likelyhood that anything that exists would exist is about zero. It is very unlikely that men exist; it is very unlikely that life exists; it is very unlikely that the universe as such exists. But all this exists. It is the anthropological principle. We and all the stuff around do exist unless we could not realize that it exists. All this exists due to evolution. Darwin is universal. Everything that is not sustainable and resilient will disappear. Only the fittest will sustain: The fittest plants, bacterias, viruses, kinds of humans and universes.
And this may be the reason why the universe may not disappear so soon. It is a result of evolution and would have disappeared for long if it would not be kind of stable.
We as men do not exist very long. We still have to make proof that we are stable enough to live on and develope further.
Excellent video! But should such a phase transition occur at least we wouldn't even know it was coming
I superheated water once when I was a kid. I hadn't used the microwave to boil water before. It was in a Pyrex measuring cup and wouldn't boil.. I kept extending the time because I'd open the door and... Nothing. I finally pulled the cup out of the microwave, stuck a spoon in it and the water exploded all over. Only some of it hit me. It was pretty hot. :)
I did that deliberately once in a very clean mug, and triggered it at arms length with a long wooden spoon and some salt while wearing rubber gloves. Scared me, and I'm fearless. 0/10 will not repeat.
I had a coffee reheated in the microwave and it was out for about 5 secs I put a spoon in to give it a stir and it erupted. No one believed me.
I remember hearing about some postgrad students accidentally superheating several litres of pure water in a large round bottom flask. When they realised this they turned off the heat, tip-toed out of the lab, locked the door, put a warning sign on the door and took the rest of the day off. One of them told me that they thought a small, but nasty, explosion would have occurred if it had been bumped.
once you figure out that water actually gets pretty hot pretty quickly in the microwave you no longer make that mistake. lol i find that 90 seconds is plenty for even my massive 20oz coffee cup to go from cold to almost undrinkably hot even with refrigerated milk. i usually hit 1 minute and thats good enough. although i have not yet mastered cooking rice in the microwave.. ive done it a few times but am always scared to go the full twenty minutes just because of how much evaporation occurs and how hot the shit gets lol.
Lol I did something similar when I took the water out I was like it has to be hot enough so I dropped the dry noodles in and it started boiling out of control instantly lol I was terrified and I ran away because I thought I would get in trouble for making a huge mess
I am a human who likes consuming science.
You are a human who likes sharing science. You do it well.
I like you
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I am a human made from the same coagulated time and energy that's currently in you and the screen you're looking at this comment through. We were once fused together in a giant nuclear reactor that was the first star that existed roughly where our current planet and sun are now. The air you breath was once in my lungs, the water you drink was once a part of my body, the carbon in the food you eat was once in the food I ate, the time you are experiencing right now is in contact with me, and when you look up at the sky at the stars you are seeing things that once existed that for all we know became part of living things like us long ago.
is this a confession of your love?
Oh, good. My existential dread was waning for a bit. Thanks for topping it back off!
Well, it's impossible to predict when it will happen in the eons of time, but probably somewhere between 5 pm and tuesday.
Don't worry, because the collapse spreads with the speed of light, as long as the collapse happens outside of our observable universe, it will never reach us!
Given that things have remained stable for more than 13 billion years, the odds seem good for us
Who's to say it hasn't already happened, and we are... ~~looks around~~ now in Hell?
@@timbergel8147 Oh, sure. Everything's just fine for 13 billion years. And then one day, Cousin Jimbo burns a pot roast and the whole universe implodes.
On the up side, if we are in a false vacuum and it decays to a lower energy state, it should propagate at the speed of light, so we'll never even know that it happened.
Apart from watching all the stars go out. 😬
@@Secretgeek2012 Don't worry, it's already here when you see starlights go out- sorry, before your brain registers any visual change😊
@@Secretgeek2012 when the light arrives, or well, does't arrive from the stars is the moment the vacuum decay reaches us as well.
I was half expecting the video to end in a black-screen mid-sentance.
He missed a trick there 😉
2:12 "...and in 2030, Dr. Higgs was awarded ..."
This video is from the future! 😂
I scratched my head thinking I didn't hear it then went back, yep confirmed Anton is way ahead of us :)
Anton evidently collaborates on these videos with Dr. Who.
I assumed he said 2013.
@@Terran.Marine.2 Yes, obviously he said and thinks of 2013 it just when he said 2013 the "n" is inaudible and without n 2013 sounds exactly like 2030. xD
Lol yeah It got me too. 2013 is much more likely though for sure
The five scholars have all worked on the idea of a field giving particles mass. The were authors of three separate papers, but not coauthors of Peter Higgs who was a sole author. Only his paper mentioned a boson and this is why it is named after him.
Black wholes the higgs field has to be influenced
Oh hey! From Sabine to Anton, it seems we have quite the similar interests lol
@FractalWanderer Anton talks about a lot of interesting new papers. Sabine too but she also has a deep insight into theoretical physics.
Remember in the double slit experiment we found that energy only exists as a particle when observed. We exist because the universe needs observers. The Higgs field analogy is spot-on: that watched pot won't boil.
"The moment we laid eyes upon it, we could do nothing... but run."
Higgs field might go into transition phase after seeing Anton's smile
That sounds like the worst pickup line in history: "baby, you just made my Higgs field collapse."
I've noticed, it's starting to look real again after so long... hopefully he's found some solace, after the horror he endured.
Maybe it did destroy the known universe. Because let’s be honest. Since the Higgs Boson was discovered. Our reality we are currently experiencing. Feels like the damn twilight zone.
With anyone else that title would be click bait. But it's Anton, so you know the universe is actually in danger, and only he can stop it.
7:02 I look forward to our first warp drive experiment introducing an impurity into the Higgs Field and collapsing the phase state of the entire universe.
The most apparent answer would be: Because we lack the proper understanding of the universe to make any calls regarding its existence. It is there. That is ALL we know.
Ugh. I hate it when the universe instantaneously and spontaneously ceases to exist. 😮😢
Yeah, gets on my nerves every time it happens
It’ll be fun! No need to worry, you won’t notice it.
@@theotherandrew5540 all goes dark, memories fade, all starts again
Thats not quite the thing. It will automagically replace itself, with something even more strange and bizarr.
Control, alt, delete.
Bugger...
That explains The BearnstAin Bears that everyone thought was the BearnstEin Bears. It was all a primordial black hole induced phase transition of the Higgs Boson Field.
In the reality I'm from, they're called The Brownstain Bears, and Biggy Bosons, respectively. Also, Nelson Mandela was a Nobel laureate for theoretical physics.
there is only 1 blackh ole and it is situated at the central northern vortex of creation, one of only 2 places on flat earth they ban people from going to: the north pole, Hyperboria.
Hello Wonderful Anton, this is Person. I'm glad the Universe didn't end so I can enjoy your show over breakfast.
False Vacuum Decay:
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
_"Total protonic reversal!"_
--Ghostbusters
Never cross your streams
@@matthewmenich4302 especially while writing your names in the snow ...
Assuming false vacuum decay is possible and that it follows the description given here it might be closer to a one dimension collapsing down into another which would also explain why string theory describes dimensions as high as 24 in some cases. Basically something happens and the higher level collapses into the lower then again and again until you get what we have now. On a side note things get strange because we should under this principle have the ability to either make this reexpand into a higher dimension or drop down and if we or something else were to use it as a weapon it would start a slowly spreading cascade across the universe and it would absolutely cause extreme energy events.
When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?
@@jedstanaland2897 Wtf are you talking about. Is that an episode of Doctor Who or something?
In the words of the great Richard Feynman -> "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it (your idea) doesn't agree with experiment (observed reality), it's wrong."
Feynman's presumption here is that current experimental technique is adequate to test theory. It's never been true and it's not true now. So take that, Richard.
tell that to NASA, Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, Lemaitre, Higgs, Keplar, and all the rest of the deceivers of humankind.
Another day, another existential horror.
That one guy. "You don't know what i had to do to save you all"
none of you will ever thank me, either ...
That other guy. "You all know what I did to save you all, and you will worship me forever for doing it."
Judas: In Ramanujan Summation, -1/12 = all numbers to infinity. Minus one of 12 apostles creates the universe... YAY!
@@thehellyousay what did you do, beat skyrim nintendo wii edition on easy mode??
@@UselessKnowbody uhhhh. what lmao
What really blows my mind is if the "big bang" was actually a Higgs Field phase shift from a previous universe. I have no idea if that's possible, but it's certainly a provocative thought
This is what I was considering as well and it kinda checks out
This is based on my very limited knowledge, but I didn't think the big bang could be a type of vacuum decay or field phase shift because all evidence points to the universe being nearly infinitely small at the moment of the big bang. The CMB alone points to a much smaller and rapidly expanding early universe.
A phase shift wouldn't result in the universe becoming infinitely small - if a phase shift occurred today, it would expand into the universe at its current size, and the post-shift universe would show signs of having shifted while the universe was already large.
Maybe a phase shift occurred in the very early universe, but it would've been a separate, distinct event from the big bang.
It is supposed the universe has near infinite room to expand into, which is a totally different thing, there is no proof the universe in its current state is near infinitely large, it is only as large as we can observe it, as unobserved particles are in a wave function state on a quantum level
@@zladut while I understand that idea, my theory was grounded on the perhaps misinformed thought that everything was gravitationally bound in a much stronger Higgs field which would explain why it's a small relative to today. Of course I could be totally off base as you said I just thought it was cool
That wouldn't really work well with dark energy. The expansion rate of the universe is accelerating while we expect a false vacuum decay to remain constant at the speed of light.
Perhaps, IF the inflation period was indeed related to a change in the Higgs field, and IF primordial black holes were the cause of the shift, that event also wiped all primordial black holes from existence, thus making it impossible for it to happen again? Or at least impossible to happen again with primordial black holes triggering the shift.
I guess it all depends on what primordial black holes were like when the higgs was more 'dense' and ...wait...what if they were 'primordial impurities' until the phase shift changed enough that they would no longer have mass enough to be impurities and that's where it stopped?
Inflation? hahaha, still stuck on the archaic pseudo science of Einstein I see.
I was half hoping for a _Milky Way_ video after the community post this morning.
Thanks Anton, new fear unlocked: Randomly disappearing at any time.
This has always been a thing as the quarks that make up protons and neutrons do so all the time. 🤯
Why? It's probably the best way to go
@@David_AxelordSounds wonderful to me 😂
@@thanelewis8893I wish I had the power to control these phenomena! Why give us a sandbox without tools?
So.... whats the Chinese Brest Pump story?
Yeaah we are heree for the brests, what about them?
Sauce?
Not hacked it seems??🤔
This upload could be scheduled, so still a possibility
Came here for mamal basic function stimmulated by technology.
I came for the science...
and left with an existential crisis...
Wonderful...
Don't worry, there's always the chance a gamma burst or supernova or something like that gets us first before vacuum decay does 😊
whicj is all their pseudo science is ever intended to do: deceive and misdirect.
Hi, Anton is ur most recent community post about the sponsorship real?
Oh yeah, that one is hilarious
This could be a scheduled upload. Still be cautious
Yes be careful of the links in the description as well. If he’s hacked they could have posted this and changed the description links
He's going to have to address it IN VIDEO. Its the only way. I'm not sure what to think but enough people think he was hacked that its probably the prudent thing to do. PS where the hell are his Patreons? Surely he would have said something to them and we'd hear about it.
Please, Anton, tell us about it 😂😂. It's not April 1st so we can't believe it's anything other than a hack!
Maybe the Higgs Boson destroyed the part of the universe that was required to exist for the Higgs Boson to destroy the universe, and since that part of the universe no longer exists, we have been spared.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy... explained.
@@illegal_space_alien elaborate please 🚬😏
@@geigertec5921 "Maybe the Higgs Boson destroyed the part of the universe that was required to exist for the Higgs Boson to destroy the universe" The wreckage left could be dark matter and dark energy, depending on which side of the e=mc^2 equation it happened to be on at the time.
The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave!
Nicola Tesla states, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration”
Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles,
and creates our experience-able Universe.
Max Planck states: "Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from Consciousness".
Life is the Infinite Consciousness, experiencing the Infinite Possibilities, Infinitely.
We are "It", experiencing our infinite possibilities in our finite moment.
Our job is to make it interesting!
yesterday i found a DM coin with mister plancks face on it
"Our job is to make it interesting!"
ty for ur words/wisdom, ill try my best!
I believe this. Explains much unexplained quantum phenomena well beyond just the observer effect which simulation theorists always point to.
shh, dont say that too loudly, for it'll destroy their Einsteinian world view and it will literally fall apart, their fake world, that is. Tesla is thee only scientist worth listening to and his entire work was based on the flat earth science we now all know.
I watch you every night and look forward to learning new things. This is probably my favourite episode so far (so hard to pick a favourite!). The concept of the universe undergoing a phase shift at any moment is a fantastic idea. When we are dealing with infinity, I suppose that anything can happen. Maybe it has happened already billions of times! Cheers
New fear unlocked. Thank you, wasn't sure where my mind would go tonight when trying to sleep before this.
If the universe is going to someday phase change us out of existence, we can't do a damn thing about it, so live as it will never happen.
Help people, pet dogs, and be genuine.
Be wonderful like Anton.
Put this on a t-shirt! I'd wear it ❤
...which is the only sensible attitude towards death. so i'm bewildered by the number of people who accept they will cease to exist within a few decades, never to come back, but feel the need to get worked up by the death of their species or their universe over longer time scales
cats.
This is a potential explanation for the Fermi paradox: The aliens know, so they're home being nice to each other, petting alien dogs, and avoiding Earth at all costs.
"It may take some billion years until the whole world disappears or even longer." Or a few seconds or even less. Who knows?
I've started stocking up on canned goods and bottled water just in case the universe implodes.
Don’t forget the toilet paper…
Tiny bubbles
In my wine
Tiny bubbles
Make me happy
All the time
Thank you Don
i was legit singing this in my head before i scrolled to your comment! ahaha
I will share this at work tomorrow.. If time still exists tomorrow.
Best not to, for it's all provable lies.
There's probably less than one hundred thousand people who have a deep understanding of this kind of physics. I'm not one of them.
There are two types of people. Those who do not understand quantumn physics, and liars.
@@scott6129 because it's not real. It's incomprehensible maths created by people who want to feel superior and claim they understand what no man can hope to comprehend. There's energy that flows forever, gets compressed and fused into elements that decay, transmutation and so forth, and then the decay products are fused again, and again, forever and ever. The universe is a living being and we're part of it. There's no big bang, no big crunch, the universe won't expand to the point of oblivion. Relax, we're in good hands.
The number is much, much smaller than that. I'm not saying it's zero, but... actually, I am saying it's zero 😂
Ironically the only way humanity has been able to achieve all that we have achieved is because we have done so as a collective intelligence with no man or woman being smart enough to build, do, or understand anything much at all, but if all of us can understand .0001% of something than we can collectively know 100% IF and that's a very big IF we share what we know with eachother.
@@gerardwalker2159 Since so few ppl have seen and studied the data which confirmed the higgs boson and everything we know about it we can ask if it's possible all this is just confirmation bias.
Hello Anton
The Higgs Boson might have already taken the Cosmos with it, just like the amount of time it takes the light from a star to reach us, it might take an "almost" infinite time for the death of the Cosmos to reach everything that is contained in the Cosmos, a sure sign would be the stars in our neck of the woods suddenly disappearing
If the bubble of new Physics expands at light speed you won't see anything disappearing until everything does.
If the new physics has a lower speed of light then you might get a warning.
@@mikespangler98maybe the speed of light is higher in the new physics?
@@crabby7668 Even if the speed of light is faster inside the bubble of New Physics it still has to expand through the Current Physics space where the current speed of light holds.
I don't know anything about this "Higgs" guy but he has a lot of explaining to do!
Then, if such a black hole appears at the Large Hadron Collider, it threatens the entire universe
LHC is too small it would require a collider the diameter of the earth like in Halo
@@Syncrotron9001 fortunately for us..
If there are a bazillion advanced civilizations out there, why hasn't any of them destroyed the universe with a particle accelerator yet?
@@noob19087 scientific paper isn't fully correct. They probably miscalculated somewhere...
@@noob19087 Because like us they came up with the theory decades or centuries before they had the capacity to build a collider large enough and then they decided "Nah lets not do that"
I trust, Anton, that when a Higgs Field phase shift occurs, you will be covering the event!
Apart from which, if a future phase shift occurs it will unravel the universe at a quantum level. And since time is fairly immaterial at that level, it would have already unravelled backwards by now.
Thanks for another fascinating production!
We are in overtime!
Golden goal, basically 😅
Too bad the score is now 0-23.
To quote my favorite Vulcan, "Fascinating." 🖖
Why would Higgs Boson do such a thing? Maybe he slept in
Having just had a 2 hour discussion about the cosmic terror that is the Boötes void, the thought of living inside a Higgs field bubble that can pop at any moment is really comforting :/
The more you learn, the less you know
True. You KNOW things when you have too little knowledge to realize how little is even possible to actually know. Once you learn, you only suspect things.
Classical heisenberg equation*
@@catpoke9557 No, accumulating enough (not little) knowledge helps you realize how much is still left to be known. Once you truly know a discipline as much as we have discovered about it, is when you can truly investigate further.
You stay wonderful, too, Anton - I look forward to hearing from you every day!
I never knew distilled water doesn't boil🤯
It does.
It has to be purer than simply distilled water for that to not-work..not to mention a very clean container.
Anton's channel is the great's channel on YT for space and curiosity!!! 💯 Fantastic explanations, very genuine and knowledgeable, I freak love this dude!!! Thx bro!
Hello Anton! 👋👋
Here's an idea I came up with. Assume that the universe is cyclic in some way: the "death" of an old universe results in the "birth" of a new universe. Also note that our perception is our reality.
What is the behavior of time from the perspective of a being that is dying? It flows faster and faster, eventually reaching infinitely fast once the being dies. Infinitely many universes may be created and destroyed within the span of you being dead, until one is created in which you are alive to perceive the flow of time again. Thus, from their own perspective, no being can truly die.
maybe the inflation era, WAS the metastable phase, the collapsed bit is what we are in?
This is reminiscent of the first, failed version of cosmic inflation. The Higgs is no longer a candidate for the inflaton.
"Now, or now, or maybe now" I love that there are so many nerds giggling across the internet at Anton's humor! 😂
Maybe the universe was destroyed, and we are now living in what once was.
❤️👍
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There was a new arxiv paper last week slightly modifying the probability of the phase change to a more stable state. There are large uncertainties but it was still something like a probability of 10^-200 in a 1 Giga parsec volume per billion years (assuming no impurities). Either way, the chances were so low that other End of the Universe events are more significant.
It did, now we are now in a different timeline
That's what I'm saying. Things went weird in 2012.
Is this about the one with the chick and the duck?…..wait, when am I?
Man this one would be an amazing Sci fi horror/drama where they discover phase change and they are trying to figure out if there is any way possible to prevent this (and of course they kind of do but they kind of don't so at the end of the movie, the world and the universe ends up in complete mess with some complete new physics that the human kind has to figure out and make work with again but the life as it is survived (BARELY) ). And out of that first movie the second movie is born where human kind discovered some amazing and some deadly new physics where it allowed them to transition quickly into civilization type 2 on kardashev scale (in matter of century)...
Man this movie franchise is mad as hell in my head. :D
Plot twist: the universe is already shredding apart but we won't know about it for a billion year or so.
We don't see those in distant universe, because the first thing we would see is a wall of true vacuum hitting our eyeballs. Anthropic principle at its finest.
Oh! Now I get it!
@@mendelovitch speed of light is scary like that.
no breast pump?
Secretly he was wearing it all the time
no teasers for the squeezers
I remember an uncle who is heavily into conspiracies and such told me “That boson will create a black hole, end us, and open a portal to hell”
Let’s just say watching the title for this video gave me a chuckle.
Kind of interesting that in order to prove a theory the universe must end...
Ooh, so that's why in many recipes it says to bring water and salt to a boil. (Instead of adding salt later or no salt at all.)
Any change that happens will travel at the speed of light. So even if it happens somewhere it would have to be really close before we could see anything at all.
One observation of the Higgs particle is not proof of it when you count how many times they attempted to find it. The LHC can't even use hard drives to record the experiments because they would fill the hard drives too fast. They literally have to use reel to reel tape drives. The total amount of information they have already recorded can't even be observed by humans, because you would have to start looking at the data when you were born and would be dead long before you completed the goal. So everday they go thu the process of looking at the data that they have. And they found one example in hundreds of thousands of attempts, if not millions.
Title made me think some galactic battle happened
The universe is constantly collapsing everywhere all the time - but it’s many worlds and we only are there to observe in the universes that did not collapse.
- Mom, can we have luminiferous ether?
- We have mass ether at home.
I just ascended, and now move in a diagonal temporal direction while my conciousness displays a holographic rendering on the traditional trajectory of the firmament after reading this comment, I am beyond time and consideration and have attained virtual godhood in my realm via the knowledge you have wrought. Thanks homie.
@@ShortKingofKingswell, good thing you didn’t overthink it and kept your feet on the ground…..have we done this before?
@@berndepauw4932 yes my feet are most certainly grounded in this abyss. Very sturdy are the feet holders of the void. We have done this endlessly unfortunately. Can't have shit in Detroit, as so with the dimensionless corridors of temporarility
When I and everything I care about are suddenly gone, I expect the caring part to be gone, too.
Should I care about that, and if I do, wouldn't that care also be gone?
It probably did. Feels like an alternate timeline since 2012.
The more science I learn, the more I realize I am effectively taking everything on faith, and will never KNOW anything.
Once we do, the field collapses, simulation over.
If the vacuum was metastable it would have already decayed due to high energy events such as cosmic rays. Which means that the absence of these decays should be a smoking gun for new physics.
... vacuum ? 😉
Why are you thinking cosmic rays are high energy? They may be quite low energy, relative to other universal phenomena.
Errr not so
@@CoroDanThe total energy of a cosmic ray is small when compared to a whole supernova but for example the oh my god particle with 3x10^20 eV of energy in the size of a proton is extremely energy dense
@@CoroDan The most energetic cosmic ray was 53 joules.
Having studied this a little myself, I think that the primordial black holes are what created the first phase change. That is, they are/were there, but now have all evaporated.
Fun fact - apparently what we can see of the Universe is a small area compared to its actual size, due to how extremely red shifted everything is. Up to 250x larger than what we can currently see due to this initial expansion. Some theories suggest that we are in one smaller lower energy state bubble as well, where space and physics operate differently. ie - it reads as "quasi-stable" because of most of what's around it still being in the other state and has a small effect, still on us.
Note that the next lower "Stable" areas could exist as well and would easily explain things such as dark matter. We can't "see" it because the physics itself has already changed in those areas. It might not even fully coexist with the current three dimensions as we know them.
*are* we here? I thought this was a simulation
It's a simulation, but it's very advanced so it's 1:1
No you’re a simulation!
Simulation theory is just religion for nerds...
We are a simulation within a simulation,everything and everyone that ever is and has been is just a repetition of our perception of reality.😂
Can't be proven either way.
Transition from the metastable state to the true vacuum could occur via quantum tunneling, a process where particles can 'jump' from one state to another without passing through intermediate states. If this happened, the universe as we know it could be destroyed.
Anton is the best reason to propose a Basic Income Grant. Imagine all kids could foĺlowing his philosophy "learn something new, every day".
One cannot understand one's own death. How does a the mind know when the heart and brain stops if there is no signal being sent or recieved? Our everyday lives are technically a simulation of the things in reality within our own minds.
A community post so out of character that most of your subs worry you were hacked. Your viewers know you too well Anton, you'll have to say something I'm afraid - on video. I think it was poking fun at the most irrelevant sponsorship ever but this day and age, who knows.
I heard the hypothesis that the great attractor is exactly the place where the Higgs field shifted and everything acquired cyclopean masses, even an ordinary electron will weigh a lot or whatever it turns into
He got a nobel prize in 2030? Anton confirmed to be a time traveller...? 😅
(Yes, I know it was just a slip of the tongue, but the chance was just too good to pass up!)
Was about to say the same thing. Lol
@@Phantom_space-ramen_ I wrote out my post then found yours. I am posting anyway.
Oh my, What Da Species!??? Anton is an ALIEN!!!
We live in "slow light"... Anton is faster than us... He's been there and back and came to tell us about it...
Peter Higgs was not the main author of the original "Higgs phenomenon" paper. There were 3 independent papers.
Because "WE" are needed to keep the Spiritual/Physical Universe in balance. WE are Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Damn! Now where is my Superhero outfit?
Where is my supersuit!
We will NEVER know what the universe doesn't want us to know
Can gravital vortexes some day be used for travel
... maybe the electromagnetic ones.
Anton, I love how your strange and wonderful sense of humor comes out and shines on us once in a while, as at the end of today's presentation. Awesome!
my theory is that higgs boson already destroyed us sometime in the 2000's , and we've been in a simulation ever since.
2012 ?
I think the whole universe was both created and destroyed at the same moment and we are currently living in that infinently tiny moment, and the only reason we perceive it as having time longer than a moment is because the universe created the illusion of time when it came into existence, but this only applies to things in it that capable of perceiving time, if there was no living things to percieve the time then time wouldn't exist at all because it would be over.
*Hypothesis* not theory.
@@geigertec5921I've come to this conclusion as well, I don't think we can avoid this perspective; yet to be useful however, as we don't know if our universe is contained or all there is.
Do big bangs happen locally in relatively small areas of a much bigger spacetime or does it involve all spacetime?
Limits on light make even this hard to discern. We obviously assume it's not local but when we can only interact locally... Maybe truly massive, observable universe amounts of energy in a much more massive universe could produce big bang like super novae that are bigger than locaility?
Maybe it was even a weapon in which we evolved inside the explosion of? Just speculating...
I'm unaware of what proves that the boundary of the big bang has to be universal and not just somewhere bigger than local and smaller than universal. I know there's logical assumptions but that's it. Why wouldnt there be time and space outside the boundary event, the big bang, if the "whole" universe, even if for a moment, truly exists? To have this perspective would require space and time outside the event to be real as well.
I think the real boundary is on our brains pertaining to the concept of the infinite as opposed to nothingness. I think infinite is more likely than nothing.
The question that irks me is, "was the boundary event natural?"
Is it part of a cycle, an oscillating wave?
Or was there intentional massive scale chaos creation by things we did not evolve to be able to imagine?
Sorry for the consciousness stream, curiosity triggered.
I’ve always loved universal superfluid / phase transition theories…water expanding as it transitions to ice being analogous to the sudden expansion of the universe.
spoiler: people will believe anything the masses believe.
lol I did that with a little glass of water, tap water that is.... heated it in the micro, forgot about it until I heard a bang and found out that the door to the micro had blown open and the whole micro was dripping inside... yea, I got a bit scared.... So it seems you do not need perfectly "clean" water to gain that effect.
I've only had it happen once. Brought about 150 mL of water to a boil multiple times (at least twice) without removing it. Loud bang but that was about it.
After watching this, I'm afraid of sneezing!
I'm going to shake pepper onto my food *REAL* carefully!
Well explained and very interesting Anton. Thanks.
Ahh, so now we are proposing a return to the concept of Aether. Good job Anton.
The fundamental element of the Higgs filed theory is the field, not the boson. The boson is merely a manifestation of a disturbance of the field that proves its existence.
0:14 Dang...Caught me off guard there...lol...
Hello, Anton!
😆
This is why I never studied physics. I understood on an instinctual level that it was a waste of time, because the Higgs field was just going to phase shift and everything I'd learned would wrong.
You are here because you are here. Much love.
🎵Tiny Bubbles🎶This makes that song even creepier.
Hey Anton, huge fan and long time subscriber here. Random question - are you aware that your channel posted a sponsored ad for Chinese breast pumps using terrible grammar earlier today?
Just curious/concerned that this video came out 8 hours later and the post is still there as of 1am EST.
when you think about all the different types of events and things that occur in the universe, and how long its all been happening.. its hard to consider this worthy of worrying about.
Fascinating stuff. I kinda like metastable materials and similar materials - in general, the idea that something could change entirely due to its structure is really cool. A lot of really important aspects of life, and a lot of the strongest materials we all work with, have special attributes due to their structure - carbon, steel, water... and maybe the universe itself.