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Probably most of the time we watch a documentary movie about curiosities of the universe and its mysteries, there are some alarming, slightly eerie prognosis of The Solar System’s fate.
Commonly, such chilling predictions are left with room for doubt, judgment and conclusions. That is mainly due to evergoing research into fundamental laws of the universe. Surprisingly for some, the humankind is still discovering and acknowledging new phenomena occurring in the space and even much closer to us – phenomena on molecular level. Thus, being aware of not knowing all the facts and detailed process underlying the complex mechanism of the Universe existence, popular science publications present mostly theories with open questions at the end. Quite recently a new breakthrough in physics has took place as in 2012 a new theory regarding elementary particles origin was created – Higgs theory. It explains a phenomena dating up to the Big Bang event. Physicist believe that right after the Big Bang, so called, Higgs field formed and filled the universe contributing to development of elementary particles’ mass. However, as it often happens in scientific world, the brand new theory began to be questioned. Theoretical physicians have been analysing the new discovery, applying it to numerous physics laws we know today. Obtained results are both interesting and worsening. Through mathematical insight the scientists came into a conclusion that the Higgs Field does not necessarily exist in only one phase but it might undergo a transition into its extremely dense state, destroying all the matter in the universe.
Here lies the potential threat to our world. However, this devastating event is said to take place in billions of years from now. Such a prognosis is based on the multiverse theory, opening another set of doors to predictions, speculations and doubts. We are yet left with a bunch of thrilling open question in our minds.
Questions:
1. How do you feel about predicting the fate of the universe in general? Should we be concerned about any calculated possibility regarding the end of the World?
2. Should we, as a humankind, start taking precautionary measures in order to protect ourselves from possible collapse of the universe? If yes, how should we decide which theorem about fate of the universe to get prepared for?
3. In your opinion, are mathematical evidences strong enough to definitively accept any of the scientific theories, even if no experimental trials can be done to support the idea?
Comments
But, I think that everyone should be understood that there is always a beginning and an end.
I tell you what, none of us will see this collapse. If it'll happen, nobody will be capable even understand what's happened.
We are primitive creatures who live on a rock flying around in the void. What we can possibly observe from our rock? We can't se the big picture, thus we can't make any trustable suggestions, that's what I think.
I am more than sure that it's high time to stop huge air pollution, nuclear pollution etc. However, it's really utopian for the countries of the Third World
In my opinion, in a one day, we will predict with calculating when the end of the world would be, but i can't even imagine how it must be. And i think even strong mathematical evidences can't give us 100% sure result
I think that mathematical evidences is a very important step in scientific theories. However, to be 100% correct, they should be supported by some real life experiments.
Should we, as a humankind, start taking precautionary measures in order to protect ourselves from possible collapse of the universe? No, what for? We wouldn’t probably be able to change anything, so just don’t stress about it.
I think in general we should be curious human beings :) but we should be concerned only if a new discovery is verifiable.
CERN built the huge accelerator in CERN hoping to detect a theoretical particle of the type bosson. If such particle exists, then there could be a field in which it gets excited. This field would be the gravitational field. If so, the gravitational force would be created the same way that the other 3 forces are created (strong force, weak force and electro-magnetic force). This would mean that the quantum mechanic could include the gravitation, which would present the first step in the integration of the theory of relativity and the quantum mechanics. The only issue with this theory so far is that the scientists have not managed to find the particle. The media reports about the discovery of "God's particle" were premature, which made Prof. Higgs start ironing his tuxedo for the next Nobel Prize ceremony. Unfortunately, there are still doubts about the experiments and possible alternative explanations, so no Nobel for the poor Higgy.
I don't think we need to start taking any precautionary measures to protect ourselves from possible collapse of the universe taking into account the current state of our knowledge. I think it is much more likely we will extinct as a result of not taking care of our planet and overpopulation.
As for the maths... For our current knowledge it can be strong enough, but we don't know, if we are calculating everything, that is required for predicting the 'experiment' we are theorizing about. So we can accept it and when we will find some other particle, theory or concept, then we will just find other calculation for new theory :)
I think it's not important to predict the fate of the universe itself but the knowledge what changes are going to come may be crucial to adapt to them in order to survive. The calculated possibility of the end of the World is so far from now I think we (as regular people living here) should not be concerned about it. I don't know if mathematical evidence is strong enough to accept any of the theories for sure. The topic is so abstract for me I can't assume the evidence is strong or not.
>said to take place in billions of years from now
>billions of years from now
Well, all the questions in this article can be answered with "Its not my problem lol".
But, consider the following:
Assuming we won't nuke ourselves, there are billions of comets, asteroids and other space junk that can easily wipe us out, and we even don't track most of it.
Assuming the above "assumption" ("assumception"), if nothing will hit and wipe us out, our beloved sun will synthesize all of its hydrogen and will start burning helium, lowering its mass, thus lowering its density and by that, its gravity, expanding heavily and eating Mercury and Venus.
This whole sunny rollercoaster of death will happen in 5 to 6 billion years, we'll be either long dead by now, or we will burn like a forgotten toast.
Assuming the above assumptions (we need to go deeper), the universe will eventually expand so much, it will become absolute-zero cold- that's the ultimate end of the ends, as it kills everything because of temperature, everywhere.
So, I'd say we have bigger problems, and that problems can unwind much sooner than we expect them to happen...