Will our universe end in a ‘big slurp’?


The full title of this piece from NBC News is Will our universe end in a ‘big slurp’? Higgs-like particle suggests it might.

If the “Higgs-like particle” discovered last year is really the long-sought Higgs boson, the bad news is that its mass suggests the universe will end in a fast-spreading bubble of doom. The good news? It’ll probably be tens of billions of years before that particular doomsday arrives.

I don’t know who thought up the name “big slurp”, but I think that person deserves a medal of some sort.

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