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2022-04-27: How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass

  • 11:37: ... transition from the central bump to  the valley is an example of vacuum decay,   and we saw how this can lead to the creation  of cosmic strings in ...

2022-02-23: Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

  • 08:50: ... travel between the nucleation event   and the completion of vacuum decay and then the  expanding universe stretched them up to the ...
  • 05:59: ... but our  Higgs field formed strings. Remember   that the vacuum decayed in a random  direction towards this circular valley.   ...

2021-09-07: First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole

  • 12:46: And then the episode on how vacuum decay could destroy the universe .. or universes, if the ideas in the first episode are right.
  • 14:25: ... von Schweinitz and TBE_pryce both commented that the vacuum decay scenario sounds a lot like the big bang - what with it producing an ...
  • 14:39: In fact cosmic inflation - the event that many physicists put the bang in the big bang - IS a type of vacuum decay.
  • 15:03: ... means a new vacuum decay event now wouldn’t yield universe whose interior is expanding quickly - ...
  • 15:34: How big does the vacuum decay bubble need to be in order to propagate.
  • 15:03: ... means a new vacuum decay event now wouldn’t yield universe whose interior is expanding quickly - in the ...
  • 14:25: ... von Schweinitz and TBE_pryce both commented that the vacuum decay scenario sounds a lot like the big bang - what with it producing an expanding ...

2021-08-18: How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe

  • 01:00: ... the laws of physics across the universe.   That mechanism is vacuum decay, and  some physicists think it’s ...
  • 08:30: ... should also   add that there are other possible types  of vacuum decay beyond Higgs field decay.   For example, there may be weird ...
  • 11:34: ... it’s very unlikely  that a vacuum decay bubble   will reach us in the lifespan of our species,  ...
  • 01:00: ... the laws of physics across the universe.   That mechanism is vacuum decay, and  some physicists think it’s ...
  • 11:34: ... it’s very unlikely  that a vacuum decay bubble   will reach us in the lifespan of our species,  let alone your own ...
  • 07:01: ... the entire universe   down into the true vacuum. This is vacuum decay. It’s a phase transition of the quantum fields.   In fact it has a ...
  • 00:00: ... is going to end. But of all the  possible ends of the universe vacuum decay   would have to be the most thorough - because  it could totally ...
  • 08:08: ... let’s review the horrors that  would result from vacuum decay.   First up, everything gets fried. The energy  released in the decay ...
  • 12:07: ... time we have left - perhaps   mere billions of years - before vacuum decay swallows this fragile and metastable space ...

2020-11-18: The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It

  • 10:58: ... the universe went thorugh another phase transition - a vacuum decay - then the weak interaction would fundamentally change - to become a ...
  • 11:09: given we hgaven't actually done a vacuum decay eposide yet I'll save my deep dive into this for then.
  • 10:58: ... the universe went thorugh another phase transition - a vacuum decay - then the weak interaction would fundamentally change - to become a ...
  • 11:09: given we hgaven't actually done a vacuum decay eposide yet I'll save my deep dive into this for then.

2018-08-23: How Will the Universe End?

  • 12:23: Vacuum decay may drop the universe to an even lower energy state, wiping out the laws of physics as we know them.
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