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The Chilling Truth About Our Universe’s Fragile Existence

An Unlikely Mastermind in Physics: Sydney Coleman

Sydney Coleman, a towering figure among physicists and known for his legendary lectures at Harvard, once began his classes with an assertion that sent shivers down his students' spines: "Not only God knows, I know. And by the end of the semester, you will know." Despite his renowned wit and intriguing teaching style—imparting complex quantum theories with electric enthusiasm—Coleman harbored a startling secret: he discovered that our universe could be destroyed in an instant. His groundbreaking work in the late 1970s revealed that we live in a universe perched precariously on the edge of catastrophe, a realization that remains profoundly unsettling.