Its always the tiny things that get you

[p0intman]

http://news.yahoo.com/confirmed-newfound-particle-higgs-130317830.html

From what is known about the particle now, physicists have said the Higgs boson may spell the universe's doom in the very far future. That's because the mass of the Higgs boson is a critical part of a calculation that portends the future of space and time. Its mass of 126 times the mass of the proton is just about what would be needed to create a fundamentally unstable universe that would lead to a cataclysm billions of years from now.

"This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said last month at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

"It may be the universe we live in is inherently unstable, and at some point billions of years from now it's all going to get wiped out," added Lykken, a collaborator on the CMS experiment.
Fuck.

[ChipMHazard]

Dammit and here I was just about take out a long-term loan... Hmm...

On a serious note, I guess these theories might help them better understand what the universe is. Of course that would depend on whether or not they have actually observed the "god particle".

[Baneblade]

Imagine how powerful we would be if we could stabilize it.

[Canaris]

meh this how old Universes die and new ones are born, out there somewhere now in the depths of space the seed of the next universe is germinating and as ours dies so shall it be born, kinda like a Phoenix :)
around and around we go!

[Electrofreak]

Well, on the plus side, at least we weren't born into the last moments of our universe as it collapses in on itself.

We've got plenty of elbow room left.

[p0intman]

Not sure about that, the fireworks might actually be pretty awesome to witness, even if its the last thing anyone ever sees.

[Gonefshn]

I've been to Fermi lab before haha, I live like 20 minutes away its sweet!

And yea glad I won't be alive.

[bpostal]

So...panic?
I mean, I'm pretty sure it's called for. No matter what, sooner or later every single thing ever is going to be nonexistent. Not just 'old and crumbly' for future civilizations to dig up. More along the lines of not fucking there and nothing to ever show that it was.

I think I'm going to have a lie down.

[Micro]

Yaaaaaaaaay!