| Title | An Empty Threat |
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| Contributor | David H. Silver(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0526.16 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526/chapters/10.11647/obp.0526.16 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | David H. Silver |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-08 |
| Long abstract | Our universe may exist in a false vacuum — a metastable state that could decay through quantum tunneling, producing a bubble of altered physics expanding at light speed. Current Higgs boson measurements suggest that while such decay is improbable for timescales far exceeding the age of the universe, the possibility remains that reality itself could undergo a phase transition that abolishes matter, forces — with the bonus side effect of no more spam. |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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David H. Silver is an industrial researcher whose career bridges computer vision, computational biology, and science communication. He studied mathematics, computer science, and biology at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology as a Rothschild Scholar, and was awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his doctoral work in computational biology at Cambridge, UK. Silver’s peer-reviewed publications span multiple domains: computational biology in Nature and PNAS; computer vision systems in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; medical AI in Human Reproduction and MIDL; and entertainment analysis in PLoS One. He holds over a dozen patents in depth sensing, medical imaging, and generative AI. His industry positions include Algorithm Engineer at Intel Corporation, ML Researcher at Apple, and CTO/co-founder roles at several technology startups. Silver maintains academic collaborations with researchers worldwide and serves as a peer reviewer for Image and Vision Computing and PNAS.