Higgs Boson Seems To Prove That The Universe Doesnt Exist None of us should be here. In fact, the whole world, the stars and the galaxies shouldn’t be here either. According to a new cosmological study, our whole Universe should have blinked out of existence an instant after it was first created. Research from British cosmologists at King’s College London (KCL) suggests that the Universe shouldn’t have lasted for more than a second after the Big Bang, according to the Standard Model that’s suggested by the Higgs boson seen in 2012 along with recent astronomical observations. After the Universe began in the Big Bang, it is theorised that it went through a short period of rapid expansion known as cosmic inflation. The Universe is still expanding today, but at a rather sedate pace astronomically-speaking. In the inflationary period, matter was flung outward at an exponential rate in all directions, rippling space-time into waves of gravitational energy as it went. This theory explains a number of features of the Universe, including the fact that it seems to be the same in all directions, is flat and has evenly distributed cosmic microwave background radiation. Although scientists don’t fully understand the whole process of inflation, they’re still able to make predictions about how it should make the Universe today look. Presenting to the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting, KCL’s Robert Hogan outlined the research, which combines the latest observations of the sky with the properties of the particle seen by the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider to come up with the slightly discomfiting conclusion that we shouldn’t exist.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:39:42 +0000
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