Bubbling away: In the quantum gases lab in Trento, the team produced a superfluid spin mixture of sodium atoms in a false vacuum state (blue) and observed and studied its decay to the true vacuum ...

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, but deep down, it's not. Over enormous timescales, it could suddenly tip ...

An experiment conducted in Trento (Italy) by researchers of the University of Trento, from the Italian National Institute of Optics CNR-INO and from TIFPA, with theory support from Newcastle ...

The good news is that you, and everyone you love, will die long before it might happen. Now for the bad news. Someday, in the far-distant future, eons beyond its 13.8-billion-year adolescence, the ...

The universe is full of exploding stars, matter eating black holes, and swaths of dark matter and energy that scientists still don’t quite understand. To the average person, it might look like a ...

Of all the possible ends of the universe, vacuum decay would be the most thorough. The universe is going to end. But of all the possible ends of the universe vacuum decay would have to be the most ...