Hey, isn´t good

>>8720091
>Caring

If we live in a metastable vacuum then somewhere a nucleation event has probably already happened. But, and here's the kicker, you wont know about it, ever, the bubble expands at the speed of light so no light ray will ever be able to reach you before the bubble does.

If you want discussion it might help to tell what your picture is about.

>>8721645
>Top quark pole mass vs Higgs Mass

It's trying to deduce if we live in a stable or meta stable vacuum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastability_event

>>8720091
Plot looks like bullshit to me. Where is it from? Where do the CL contours come from? Why are they so perfectly elliptical? Did they use Wilk's theorem? Why should it be applicable here? Why are the contours so perfectly centered?

>>8721685
>The outer dotted line is the current measurement uncertainties; the inner ones show predicted sizes after completion of future physics programs, but their location could be anywhere inside the outer.

A bit misleading, perhaps. The source cited is http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312008611

>>8721656
How can anyone be worried about our experiments when nature is so much more energetic?

>>8722139
Because nature doesn't have the power to start a black hole right here on earth

>>8722168
Realistically neither do we. That is not what the chart is about

>>8722139
If the universe is unravelling naturally what can you do? But if it isn't and there's an outside chance we cause it that seems a bit of a pickle

>>8722139
Probably because our experiments generate situations that are not commonly found in nature. Two particles with few TeV energy colliding is one of them. The highest energy particles detected (by Auger or Fly's Eye or TA) are in the EeV range (so more than a million times more energetic than hat is accelerated in the LHC), but as the target is fixed, the collision energy is much lower than the energy of the particle suggests (only about hundred times higher than LHC). So those are basically the most high energetic particle collisions that happen in the universe. That's not too far away from what we can do here on earth. Still, the panic is ridiculous obviously, as collisions way more energetic happen millions of times every day on earth. If one day PeV accelerators happen, then we are approaching physics that only happens very occasionally in the universe.

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>>8722323
Accelerator PeV? Hey, slow down.