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THE HIGGS BOSON HAS BEEN DISCOVERED! NOW WHAT?
Authors: Anton Khlopkov, Ilakha Agaeva, Yuriy Khlopkov, Zay Yar Myo Myint
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The Higgson (Higgs Boson), a peculiar catalyst of formation of mass of the Universe after the Big Bang, was theoretically predicted by the English physicist Peter Higgs in 1964. July 4, 2012 experiments on the Large Hadron Collider have revealed a mysterious particle with a mass of 125 GeV/s? which appeared to be the Higgs Boson. What are the future ways of development of physics, as well as our Universe? Authors of this report consider several scenarios of this development.
According to the Big Bang theory, evolution of the Universe depends on the experimentally measurable parameter – the average density of matter in the modern Universe. There are two evolution scenarios. If the density does not exceed a certain (theoretically known) critical value, the Universe will eternally expand forever. If the density becomes higher than critical, the process of expansion will eventually stop launching the reverse phase of compression returning the Universe to the initial singular state. Modern experimental data concerning the average density value are still insufficiently reliable to make an unambiguous choice between two options of the future of the Universe.