(I believe this small super-heavy ball of which they speak would be otherwise known as a black hole.)

This doomsday scenario seems similar to a Vacuum Metastabilty Event. Both would result from an unlikely series of random natural or artificial events and both would result in a  “bubble” in which the laws of physics would be radically altered in a way that would preclude the continuation or life and even matter. These bubbles would expand outward at the speed of light, so you’ve never know it was coming even if it started in the Andromeda Galaxy.

In this case, the Higgs field would, somehow, undergo a phase transition, with the result being that the force of gravity, or at least the mass of things, would get billions of times stronger. In this case, the Earth would probably collapse into a black hole. The moon, as well. But they wouldn’t just continue to orbit; with mass increasing by a billion times, orbital velocity would be far too low, so the Earth and moon would fly into each other. Of course, they’d also get sucked into the sun at the same time, since it’s billions of times more massive (and also a black hole). The galaxy itself, now composed of little more than black holes, degenerate matter and a few bits of dust and free gas, would collapse, everything seemingly just racing straight towards the core.

Well, at least I wouldn’t have to worry about getting my taxes in on time.

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And in wholly unrelated We’re All Gonna Die News, here’s how London will kill us all by spreading a pandemic.

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