I Think, Therefore I Am…I Think

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The next time you see someone standing on a street corner with a sign, proclaiming that the world is going to end tomorrow, just remember that they might not be as crazy as you think.

Physicists have been conducting all sorts of esoteric experiments for decades, teasing out answers only they can understand, to questions only they could think to ask. But when one considers  the recent results of some particle experiments, the ramifications are somewhat disturbing. To say the least.

These experiments have been searching for the Boson Higgs or so-called “God particle” and the results were applied to current theories. What the theorists found was that at some point, the universe we know and love so well is going to develop a rupture in it’s very structure. Somewhen, somewhere, the bubble of a new universe will spring into existence (not too different from the premise for my TerraMythos series) and spread at the speed of light throughout our universe. Needless to say, this revolutionary new universe will erase the one we know. And us with it.

The good news is that according to the values of the initial measurements, this will not happen for many billions of years. The bad news? Well, here is a quote from one of the researchers.

‘The calculation requires knowing the mass of the Higgs to within one percent, as well as the precise mass of other related subatomic particles. “You change any of these parameters to the Standard Model (of particle physics) by a tiny bit and you get a different end of the universe,” Lyyken said.’

What this means is that if the measurements are just a tiny bit wrong, in just the wrong direction, then for all we know the bubble may have already burst. The tsunami wave of a new universe could be sweeping toward us this very moment, and because it’s coming at the speed of light, we won’t know that it’s happening until it happens.

Here’s the comforting part…if it does, it’ll happen so fast the neurons in your brain won’t even have time to snap to the fact. If you are reading this, then it hasn’t happened yet. But it gives a new twist to the statement, “I think, therefore I am.”

I’m still thinking, therefore I still am.

2 Responses to “I Think, Therefore I Am…I Think”

  1. Jesus

    It depends on the level we are talikng about. People like Stephen Hawking even think Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can be improved upon because it is an approximation and does not meet the observations exactly. There are still questions about the differences between quantum physics and relativity. There are still things in the quantum world that remains mysterious such as entanglement. There are new species being discovered all the time which open a new light into the time period of evolutionary occurrences. And so on. I wouldn’t label any of these total failures. More of a narrowing down to the truth.

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    • TomW

      I couldn’t agree more! In my novella Moonrise Over Malhutan the following incscription is found over the entrance to the New Tarawa University Science & Technology College: “Learning commences when we unequivocally embrace the reality that our knowledge is, inevitably, an incomplete and inaccurate comprehension of the Truth.” The same inscription is found over the College of Religious Studies only it reads “faith” instead of “knowledge”. The novella can be found on Amazon and other -ebook distributors.

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