Big Slurp: What Is It and How Does It Work?

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What is Big Slurp?
 

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This expression seems to come up in bad pop-science articles only, apparently in reference to a possible vacuum decay: It is possible that our vacuum is not the lowest possible energy state, and it could decay to a lower state in the future - destroying every structure in the current universe.
 

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