The Universe is filled with a frozen in Higgs condensate. If this were to suddenly disappear/evaporate, what would happen?
(a) All bound matter—nucleons (made of quarks), nuclei (made of nucleons), atoms (made of
nuclei and electrons), people (made of atoms), etc.—would unbind with their constituents
flying off at the speed of light.
(b) Atoms would unbind with electrons flying off at the speed of light.
(c) Because the vacuum no longer contains the frozen in Higgs condensate, the vacuum
energy would change and the Universe would go through a period of inflation.
(d) The heavens would erupt. Enemies would become friends. A dog would shed a single
tear.
This is part of Coursera class final exam (From the Big Bang to Dark Energy
by Hitoshi Murayama). I think it's OK to learn about the Higgs via lectures or web searches. But asking for folk to answer the question is cheating.