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If their wrong no one can call them out on it.



Well, since it’s the result of a long chain of logic based on the standard model and measurement of various constants, they could be proven wrong in a variety of ways—their logic could be faulty, their calculations incorrect, or the standard model itself could be flawed.


The standard model is definitely flawed in a couple of known ways.


Correct, but modifications to the SM that can accommodate dark matter, inflation or other phenomena not explained within the SM do not necessarily change the picture of the SM vacuum instability.


well if it ends tomorrow with half an hour warning I am definitely going to let them have a piece of my mind!


I bet you $50 that it won't end tomorrow.


Let me get a piece of that. Heck, I’ll bet $51.


I will bet all the money in the world that the world will not end tomorrow.

*all bets must be settled in 48 hours.




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