Scale Invariant Instantons and the Complete Lifetime of the Standard Model · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1707.08124/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTScale Invariant Instantons and the Complete Lifetime of the Standard Model — mentioned by tempayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22459948urn:hackerpapers:mention:1707.08124:22459948Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:48:40 GMT<p>&gt; the vacuum we know is meta-stable It&#x27;s not fully known if this is the case or not. If the standard model is accurate (which is a big if) then it&#x27;s probably metastable but there is some still room for debate. See page 52 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08124.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1707.08124/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-ph