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Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge

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The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all atomic matter? With wit and charm, Giudice outlines a grim fate -- and why we shouldn't start worrying just yet. (Filmed at TEDxCERN.)

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, physics, science, universe, TEDxCERN, 2013

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