To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. Sure, an asteroid could destroy a city or wipe out life on Earth. A supernova ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) I recently saw a new paper that claims our observations could be better explained if the universe was surrounded by a shell. According to the author, that could do away with ...

The fundamental constants of nature seem perfectly tuned to allow life to exist. If they were even a little bit different, we simply wouldn't be here. Given this grave existential fact, we are forced ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. Sure, an asteroid could destroy a city or wipe out life on Earth. A supernova ...

The universe is a strange, beautiful place—rich with possibilities and governed by the odd rules of quantum mechanics. One of the most mind-bending ideas from this realm is the many-worlds ...

Scientists have come up with theories about parallel universes that are so wild they’d make the most creative science fiction writers feel jealous. The idea that there are other worlds exactly like ...

The extremely early universe featured the most cataclysmic, transformative and energetic events that ever occurred. Driving these energies was the expansion of the cosmos and the resulting ...