We've all heard of the Higgs Boson by now, it was that thing that was going to punch a great big black hole in the middle of Switzerland (or something). Well the Higgs Boson interacts with the rest of the universe using an energy field known as the Higgs field (physicists aren't very creative when it comes to naming things). It turns out that this energy field isn't fixed, it comes in two different flavours: Normal and ultra-dense At the moment, it is at the perfect density to maintain matter in the universe, and it holds it there on a knife edge. It is currently being held there by the peaks and troughs of the energy field, meaning that there is an energy barrier that it would need to overcome in order to become ultra-dense. This is extremely unlikely to happen on its own, however, there is a phenomenon called "quantum tunnelling" which would essentially enable a "bubble" of it it to move through that energy barrier and "pop" out the other end, spreading the ultra-dense Higgs Field through the universe at the speed of light. And what happens if the Higgs Field becomes ultra-dense? Why, the destruction of all matter in the universe, of course. Everything is immediately crushed and slurped down the cosmic drain with no warning or chance of escape. This isn't likely to occur naturally for the next 10^100 years (which is a long old time), so if this is how you want to destroy the universe, you'd better get your skates on inventing a quantum tunnelling machine. No, seriously, do that. That could be the key to cool stuff like teleports. You might even want to destroy the universe less if we had teleports to cut down the commute to work.
