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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

Clickbaity title. The estimated time until Higgs field decay has been changed from 10^794^ years to 10^790^ years. Presumably there's some tiny chance of it happening today, but practically we can just continue worrying about all the regular stuff that is about to kill us all.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It is, but there are still quite a lot of zeros left.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

It’s like if I became 10,000 times less attractive. Same thing.

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