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#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz

The World, the Universe and Us

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The Universe Could Be in a False Vacuum Bubble

A study last month calculated that these vacuum bubbles could form in the space between two colliding black holes. If that happens, we'd probably be ok, because the bubbles would immediately be sucked into a black hole. But it's not a certainty. So after reading that story, i have been a little bit worried that a vacuum bubble might just swallow the universe. And that really put things into perspectivesa nothingdin the matter, and o the universes can cease to exist as wellye. Be round three is life form of the year, formerly known as animal story of the year. We accept all life forms here, so i don't want to just be foxeing on animals here when

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