{"id":77526,"date":"2018-04-04T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-second-big-bang-could-end-our-universe-in-an-instant-and-its-all-because-of-a-tiny-particle-that-controls-the-laws-of-physics"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:43:28","slug":"a-second-big-bang-could-end-our-universe-in-an-instant-and-its-all-because-of-a-tiny-particle-that-controls-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-second-big-bang-could-end-our-universe-in-an-instant-and-its-all-because-of-a-tiny-particle-that-controls-the-laws-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"A second \u2018Big Bang\u2019 could end our universe in an instant \u2014 and it\u2019s all because of a tiny particle that controls the laws of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-second-big-bang-could-end-our-universe-in-an-instant-and-its-all-because-of-a-tiny-particle-that-controls-the-laws-of-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our known universe may end the same way it was created: With a big, sudden bang.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to new research from a group of Harvard physicists, who found that the destabilization of the Higgs Boson \u2014 a tiny quantum particle that gives other particles mass \u2014 could lead to a huge explosion of energy that would consume everything in the known universe.<\/p>\n<p>The energy released by the event would destabilize the laws of physics and chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/big-bang-could-end-the-universe-could-end-with-unstable-higgs-boson-2018-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/big-bang-could-end-the-univer...2018&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our known universe may end the same way it was created: With a big, sudden bang. That\u2019s according to new research from a group of Harvard physicists, who found that the destabilization of the Higgs Boson \u2014 a tiny quantum particle that gives other particles mass \u2014 could lead to a huge explosion of energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77526","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}