What exactly is vacuum decay?
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If the vacuum is not at it’s lowest energy state, that means that it has a lot of potential energy stored up. If something causes the vacuum to go to that lower state it releases a lot of energy and essentially destroys the universe as we know it.
An analogy would be too imagine you are at the top of a hill on a bike. You have a lot of potential to go fast. So you do until you reach the bottom where there is no more hill and no more potential to go fast. How ever if you didn’t actually reach the bottom, it just seemed like it because you got stopped in a big pothole you still have a lot of potential to go fast once something pushes you out of the pothole.
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