The talk by Joseph Lykken (Lykken, ironically, is Norwegian for luck), making the science news rounds today, conjectures that Higgs will some day destroy the universe in a flash of a "true vacuum" expanding at light speed and destroying our "false vacuum", and everything else in it. Here is the original paper. The interesting part for me is not the idea, which is not at all new, but the related anthropic reasoning, which goes as follows:
That alternate universe would be "much more boring," Lykken said. Which led him to ask a philosophical question: "Why do we live in a universe that's just on the edge of stability?" He wondered whether a universe has to be near the danger zone to produce galaxies, stars, planets ... and life.
Cue Frost's Fire and Ice...
"Why do we live in a universe that's just on the edge of stability?" Because the form of life we represent can only exist in such a universe? Because ( excuse me hinting at something potentialy theological) the 'Creator' of our universe finds such realms more interesting than others? On a more serious note why should we reject any proposition simply because it 'runs against the theoretical trend of the past forty years,'
Not sure what you mean by this. The only test of a proposition is an experimental one, though an apriori likelihood certainly depends on how well it matches existing tested models.