Entropy Statistics

Last summer the Higgs Boson, the particle associated with the corresponding Higgs field, which is responsible for the fact that matter has mass, was found. Now, according to Yahoo!News, livescience.com, and Space.com, the Higgs may also be able to determine whether the universe will end in a "big crunch," a "big rip," a "big freeze," or at all. This debate has been going on for some time now, and one of the biggest problems trying to find the answer is that we do not yet understand dark energy. Fundamentally, we don't know why the universe is expanding, or why this expansion is so rapid. Apparently, from what physicists can understand, the fate of the universe depends upon the mass of the Higgs boson, which teeters on the critical mass which determines how stable the vacuum of empty space-time is. Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab had this to say: "You won't actually see it, because it will come at you at the speed of light. So in that sense don't worry." I would like to add that you needn't worry at all, since this tentative event will not occur for billions of years, if it even happens at all. But for the sake of discussion, what do you think will happen?

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