How Many Bosons Would it Take to Create a False Vacuum?

[bennyboy]

Damn.



I thought it said "Bosums."

Pro tip- Bosoms are a lot bigger than Bosons.

So you say.  But I never get to see either one, so I'm gonna have to take your word for it.

[Rhondazvous]

Huh. I can quantify it as how big the bubble of the new vacuum has to be in order to grow, I'm not sure whether that can be quantified by a # of bosons.

Then could one boson create a bubble large enough to have such an effect?
Also, what is the barrier that separates the false vacuum from the true vacuum made of?
Also, is there another name for boson that I can use to keep these guys from tripping?

[Mr.Obvious]

How many bosons would it take to...

Oh, I know this one:

One to hold the lightbulb on a ladder, and two to turn the ladder!

[Alex K]

Huh. I can quantify it as how big the bubble of the new vacuum has to be in order to grow, I'm not sure whether that can be quantified by a # of bosons.

Then could one boson create a bubble large enough to have such an effect?
Also, what is the barrier that separates the false vacuum from the true vacuum made of?
Also, is there another name for boson that I can use to keep these guys from tripping?

Probaby not, or else our universe would collapse all the time.

The barrier would be made of higgs field energy, mostly. You could interpret that as a gathering of uncountable bosons if you stretch it, but I don't find it very convincing. Could you make the fields such as the higgs field an entity like the force in Star Wars from which your protagonists somehow spring and which they are always connected to?

[Rhondazvous]

Then could one boson create a bubble large enough to have such an effect?  
Also, what is the barrier that separates the false vacuum from the true vacuum made of?
Also, is there another name for boson that I can use to keep these guys from tripping?

Probaby not, or else our universe would collapse all the time.

The barrier would be made of higgs field energy, mostly. You could interpret that as a gathering of uncountable bosons if you stretch it, but I don't find it very convincing. Could you make the fields such as the higgs field an entity like the force in Star Wars from which your protagonists somehow spring and which they are always connected to?

Thanks Alex. what I'm trying to do right now is I have a Higgs boson named Higgy. He's going to crate a false vacuum as a distraction. The protag isn't inside the bubble (although that might be an interesting plot twist at some point). I guess I could just say it's energy. Could this energy be created by other types of bosons, say photons or gluons? I like to have characters doing things so the story will be cinematic.

[Alex K]

Probaby not, or else our universe would collapse all the time.

The barrier would be made of higgs field energy, mostly. You could interpret that as a gathering of uncountable bosons if you stretch it, but I don't find it very convincing. Could you make the fields such as the higgs field an entity like the force in Star Wars from which your protagonists somehow spring and which they are always connected to?

Thanks Alex. what I'm trying to do right now is I have a Higgs boson named Higgy. He's going to crate a false vacuum as a distraction. The protag isn't inside the bubble (although that might be an interesting plot twist at some point). I guess I could just say it's energy. Could this energy be created by other types of bosons, say photons or gluons? I like to have characters doing things so the story will be cinematic.

Creating a true vacuum bubble should be a big deal and not something every Higgs boson can just do on a whim - it's basically destroying the entire universe. So there should be more to it, e.g. having the help of some ultraenergetic cosmic ray particles who with their immense energy can unleash these powers if you bring them into collision. Higgy could then use his connection to the higgs field to channel this energy into the higgs field where it nucleates a bubble of the true vacuum.

[Rhondazvous]

Creating a true vacuum bubble should be a big deal and not something every Higgs boson can just do on a whim - it's basically destroying the entire universe. So there should be more to it, e.g. having the help of some ultraenergetic cosmic ray particles who with their immense energy can unleash these powers if you bring them into collision. Higgy could then use his connection to the higgs field to channel this energy into the higgs field where it nucleates a bubble of the true vacuum.

Yipes! I'm not ready to go there yet. I thought a false vacuum is just a warning sign before vacuum decay. I want Higgy to create a distraction that could imply the coming destruction of the universe without actually doing it.

BTW, can I send you a copy of Queen in care of the university where you work? They could deliver it to your office.

[Rhondazvous]

Creating a true vacuum bubble should be a big deal and not something every Higgs boson can just do on a whim - it's basically destroying the entire universe. So there should be more to it, e.g. having the help of some ultraenergetic cosmic ray particles who with their immense energy can unleash these powers if you bring them into collision. Higgy could then use his connection to the higgs field to channel this energy into the higgs field where it nucleates a bubble of the true vacuum.

Yipes! I'm not ready to go there yet. I thought a false vacuum is just a warning sign before vacuum decay.  I want Higgy to create a distraction that could imply the coming destruction of the universe without actually doing it.

BTW, can I send you a copy of Queen in care of the university where you work? They could deliver it to your office.

Oh please don't leave me here, Alex.

[Alex K]

Oh! Well, making it so that we are in a false vacuum (thus creating the threat of vacuum decay) requires changing the very laws of nature themselves profoundly. I don't know how that would translate into your narrative. We being in a false vacuum to begin with, and Higgsy scheming to initiate the vacuum decay sounds more like something that could be made into a plot. Unless your universe has a way to change the laws of nature

[Rhondazvous]

Oh! Well, making it so that we are in a false vacuum (thus creating the threat of vacuum decay) requires changing the very laws of nature themselves profoundly. I don't know how that would translate into your narrative. We being in a false vacuum to begin with, and Higgsy scheming to initiate the vacuum decay sounds more like something that could be made into a plot. Unless your universe has a way to change the laws of nature

Yes, that will work. My mind is already visualizing this.