How stable is our vacuum?

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Apr 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983natur.302..508h&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 302, April 7, 1983, p. 508, 509.

Computer Science

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Cosmic Rays, Cosmology, Vacuum, Cosmic Ray Showers, Energetic Particles, Particle Accelerators

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It is shown that no particle accelerator built in the foreseeable future will pose any threat to our vacuum. The collision energies attainable in such accelerators are compared with those occurring when cosmic rays strike the atmosphere and higher-energy collisions which may occur elsewhere. It is shown that the region inside our past light cone has already survived some 100,000 cosmic ray collisions at center of mass energies of 100 billion GeV and higher. Thus, the chance that our vacuum may be swallowed up by an expanding bubble of 'true' vacuum is negligible.

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