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Anonymous Thu Jul 5 02:55:42 2012 No.4840616 [Reply] [Original]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 5 03:05:12 2012 No.4840639 >>4840616 pseudoscience

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 5 03:09:27 2012 No.4840649 >>4840639 Not if they find bubble collisions in the CMBR

>>	not that guy Thu Jul 5 04:10:26 2012 No.4840805 >>4840649 If they did, and the hypothesis is correct, we would all die as soon as the light reaches us, due to the bubble collapse front expanding at the speed of light.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 5 04:26:56 2012 No.4840834 >>4840649 That would be impossible as space-time in our region is destroyed at the same time the light from the event we're trying to observe would have reached us.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 5 04:31:11 2012 No.4840842 >>4840805 >>4840834 I think the idea is that we'd be looking for collisions where our bubble wins. That wouldn't prove we were in a false vacuum, but would show they exist, suggesting we should take the idea we're in one more seriously.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 5 04:39:12 2012 No.4840860 File: 125 KB, 268x265, 1341466812653.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4840842 take your pseudoscience bullshit elsewhere.