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The passage reads: "With these problems solved, we produce the first complete calculation of the lifetime of our universe: 10161 years. With 95% confidence, we expect our universe to last more than 1065 years. The uncertainty is part experimental uncertainty on the top quark mass and on as and part theory uncertainty from electroweak threshold corrections. Using our complete result, we provide phase diagrams in the mt/mn and the mt/as planes, with uncertainty bands. To rule out absolute stability to 3o confidence, the uncertainty on the top quark pole mass would have to be pushed below 250 MeV or the uncertainty on as(mz) pushed below 0.00025.”