..a vacuum state that does not have the lowest energy. the false vacuum state can be one of perfect symmetry, perhaps at the instant of the "BB," so this symmetry breaks when we descend to a state of lower energy. a state of false vacuum is inherently unstable, and inevitably a transition is made to a true vacuum, which has lower energy.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Jim Lehrer was crying!!
Well, he managed to stave it off as he had just made a comment that necessarily made him think about how he and his friends had made the case for the demise of punditry...
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
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