> .. so if LHC was million times more powerful it could explore such instabilities i.e push the vacuum out of the metastable state and trigger the scenario abov

> .. so if LHC was million times more powerful it could explore such instabilities i.e push the vacuum out of the metastable state and trigger the scenario above!? It seems I wasn't giving enough credit to the religious nuts saying that LHC will destroy the world Note that if LHC was capable of this, it would have already happened. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are detected occasionally, and statistically, they hit Earth more than once per day. The highest energy ever detected was a particle with 3*10^20 eV, or 300,000,000 TeV, or roughly as much kinetic energy that a baseball has at 60mph, in what was likely a single proton. It was aptly named the "Oh-My-God particle".