{"id":31774,"date":"2016-11-07T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/the-universe-might-have-a-delete-button-and-it-could-destroy-physics-as-we-know-it"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:23:36","slug":"the-universe-might-have-a-delete-button-and-it-could-destroy-physics-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/the-universe-might-have-a-delete-button-and-it-could-destroy-physics-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Might Have a Delete Button \u2014 and It Could Destroy Physics as We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijFm6DxNVyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s something to think about \u2014 physicists have proposed that the Universe could have a \u2018self destruct\u2019 mechanism, whereby everything in existence could disappear forever at any time, without warning.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI\">as the video by Kurzgesagt \u2014 In a Nutshell<\/a> above explains, if this self-destruct button turns out to be a real thing, it means we could be here one second, and gone the next, and we\u2019d never even see it coming.<\/p>\n<p>To understand this horrifying scenario, we first have to go through two of the fundamental principles of the Universe, the first being energy levels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-universe-might-have-a-delete-button-and-it-would-destroy-physics-as-we-know-it\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-universe-might-have-a-delete...we-know-it<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s something to think about \u2014 physicists have proposed that the Universe could have a \u2018self destruct\u2019 mechanism, whereby everything in existence could disappear forever at any time, without warning. Yep, as the video by Kurzgesagt \u2014 In a Nutshell above explains, if this self-destruct button turns out to be a real thing, it means [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38569,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774\/revisions\/38569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}