Fermions Won’t Perish at the End of the World ⚡ экспресс
Scientists have found that quantum particles behave differently at the edges of the universe. Matter particles (fermions), like water, can seep through the cracks of time—even at the moment of the Big Bang. But force-carrying particles (bosons) are destroyed there. Could matter be tougher than it seems?
The end of the Universe isn’t just darkness. If dark energy tears it apart, or it crunches back into a point like a reverse Big Bang, we hit a singularity—the moment where physics as we know it breaks down. For ages, we thought everything vanishes in this cosmic cataclysm. But the equation derived by Paul Dirac in 1928 revealed: matter particles, fermions, are like seeds that don’t burn, while force carriers, bosons (like photons of light), are flames destined to fizzle out.
At the heart of the singularity, where spacetime curvature becomes infinite, Dirac’s equation yields finite, calm solutions for them. For bosons, there’s no such loophole. Researchers first spotted this escape hatch by linking Dirac’s ideas with Stephen Hawking’s work on black holes.
🎯 The Dirac equation, which predicted antimatter, now shows that matter is immortal on a cosmic scale—it will survive any catastrophe and be reborn.