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Explain false vacuum decay to me simply.
When you stick a suction cup on a wall, the vacuum that holds it on slowly decays until it falls off. Sometimes you stick it on so firmly and perfectly, that it stays on the wall even after the vacuum is gone, hence "false vacuum decay".