Should the Higgs boson have caused our Universe to collapse?

EMBARGOED until 00:01 BST, Tuesday 24 June 2014 British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the Universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the latest observations of the sky with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Robert Hogan of King's College London (KCL) will present the new research on 24 June at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth. The BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica, seen at...