False Vacuum Decay: The Ultimate Cosmic Oopsie

False Vacuum Decay: The Ultimate Cosmic Oopsie
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The ultimate cosmic "hold my beer" moment! This meme brilliantly captures the terrifying concept of false vacuum decay - where our universe might actually exist in a metastable state. The brown blob (representing our current universe) notices the Higgs field looks "a little too unstable," while the green blob eagerly pushes a button labeled "CLUNK" to trigger the decay. The bottom panel showing digital distortion is *chef's kiss* - that's literally reality being erased at the speed of light as the vacuum collapses to a lower energy state. The best part? If this happened, we wouldn't even know it. The death bubble would propagate at light speed, so physics itself would just... stop working. Sweet dreams!

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