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[โ€“] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes I know what vacuum decay is, and the thing I referenced, the inflaton field, is a hypothetized false vacuum near the very start of the universe, that went through this exact process, giving rise to our current vacuum and ending the hypothetized inflation era

I know there's a hypothesis that our current vacuum could be metastable as well, but that's a seperate thing

[โ€“] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, I believe the Higgs field showed us to be metastable, unless new findings have invalidated that.