Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27121914-20161231070935/@comment-24286619-20170105012355

Theepicosity wrote: SnufflesTheDog wrote: Yet they are both equally likely and able to happen at any time. Heat death is the maximum entropy state of the universe, while vacuum decay is the true vacuum state of the Higgs field. Vacuum decay is highly unlikely, but super scary. Heat death is inevitable.

/null Vacuum decay only requires ONE Higgs field to decay to set it all off.

Heat death, whilst likely inevitable like you said, could potentially be reversed if there is indeed a way to make energy. All current laws of physics point to this being impossible, but who knows?

Soo... we have one way to destroy our universe, and another way to destroy it in general.

TL,DR: They are both very likely.