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Physical Environment > False Vacuum |
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Once it was created, the Macrocosmos expanded and cooled rapidly to below the critical temperature for the Higgs fields. That means that the Higgs fields became unstable - they wanted to decay, to stop being zero and get some other value, but could not. It is similar to a ball balanced on the top of a hill. The ball wants to roll down, but cannot decide which way to roll. We also meet the same situation today in pure water, which can be supercooled below its freezing point without being able to turn to ice, because it cannot decide in which direction the ice crystals should line up.
This state of indecision is called the false vacuum. |
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