Scientists Found Something Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Exist
Mass comes from the Higgs field, which permeates the universe.
However, the Higgs field is unstable, and if it "bubbled," everything in that bubble would disappear.
A team of physicists believes primordial black holes should have caused the Higgs field to “bubbling” so much that nothing could have formed.
The universe's beginnings are unknown.
We can't just go back in time to see it. Instead, scientists can only piece together our cosmos's early history from hints, echoes, and faded waves propagating into the infinite.
Thus, fresh math or physical observations often contradict our theories of these earliest eras. A physics team did that lately. If many of our existing models are right, we wouldn't exist, according to their new study, accepted for publication in Physical Letters B. Nothing would.
It ultimately comes down to primordial black holes and the Higgs boson.
One of modern physics' greatest achievements is the 2012 Higgs boson discovery. This is because it validated the Higgs field, which gives particles their mass like electricity or magnetism.
To conclude, the Higgs field is crucial as it is. The Higgs field could change—a delightful, non-existential truth.
“The Higgs field isn't likely to be in the lowest possible energy state it could be in,” stated new study researcher Lucien Heurtier in The Conversation. “That means it could theoretically drop to a lower energy state in a certain location. If it happened, physics would change drastically.”
Heurtier noted that if the Higgs field dropped to a lower energy state, it would generate space "bubbles" with different physics than the cosmos.
“In such a bubble,” he said, “electrons' mass and interactions with other particles would suddenly change. Quark-based protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus would violently dislocate. Anyone witnessing such a shift would likely be unable to report it.”