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Posted on 09/08/2014 10:30:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
LONDON: Stephen Hawking has recently warned that the God particle or Higgs boson has the potential to obliterate the universe.
The 72-year-old cosmologist said Higgs boson could become unstable at very high energy levels, which would lead to a "catastrophic vacuum decay" causing space and time to collapse and that there would not be any warning to the danger, the Daily Express reported.
Speaking in the preface to a new book called Starmus, the Cambridge-educated scientist said that the Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become mega-stable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV).
However, Hawking did also mention that the likelihood of such a disaster was unlikely to happen in the near future, but the danger of the Higgs becoming destabilized at high energy was too great to be ignored.
The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by scientists at CERN, who operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
Seems to go along with the territory....................
And just a twist on the present-day events if you switch out the astro-arcaheologist with a Tea Party type (” rushing to stop the experiment’) and the mad evolutionist with a mad president.
(typical cryptic truth telling line)
To some degree:
“A study looking at 300,000 persons with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or unipolar depression, and their relatives, found overrepresentation in creative professions for those with bipolar disorder as well as for undiagnosed siblings of those with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. There was no overall overrepresentation, but overrepresentation for artistic occupations, among those diagnosed with schizophrenia. There was no association for those with unipolar depression or their relatives.
Another study involving more than one million people, conducted by Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute, reported a number of correlations between creative occupations and mental illnesses. Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse, and were almost twice as likely as the general population to kill themselves. Dancers and photographers were also more likely to have bipolar disorder.
However, as a group, those in the creative professions were no more likely to suffer from psychiatric disorders than other people, although they were more likely to have a close relative with a disorder, including anorexia and, to some extent, autism, the Journal of Psychiatric Research reports.
Research in this area is usually constrained to cross-section data-sets. One of the few exceptions is an economic study of the well-being and creative output of three famous music composers over their entire lifetime.[12] The emotional indicators are obtained from letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt, and the results indicate that negative emotions had a causal impact on the creative production of the artists studied.
According to psychologist Robert Epstein, creativity can be obstructed through stress.”
Source: Wikipedia
I’m not sure how much this applies to the scientific mind. Hawking is also the victim of a disease that has severely crippled him. I can imagine that has had a profound affect on his outlook as well.
” “catastrophic vacuum decay” causing space and time to collapse”
It’s called a Fry Hole....
Who you jivin’ with this cosmic debris?
It’s only a matter of time before the powers-that-be propose a universal Higgs boson tax to stave off this disaster.
I actually did read it. It was kind of "Meh."
If you have read the book "Contact" by Carl Sagan, not the stupid movie made from the book starring Jodie Foster, then you know that there are people 'working' on the problem'...............
Yeah... it's just stupid. No matter who comes up with the idea... its just stupid.
yeah. it gets better.I just finished season 3.
A drinking game we play is to drink whenever anybody says “hey”.
The real question is “Are the conditions inside the CERN collider unique in the Universe”? If so then Hawking might have a point. If not then no, there is no danger. I suspect that conditions (energy levels, density, etc) inside the core of a giant collapsing star far exceed anything the CERN can produce. Eargo I am not to worried about CERN ending the universe.
Wait a minute, did he say 1.21 gigawatts is required to activate the Higgs boson in the Delorian’s flux capacitor?
And since all our plutonium was lost in Bengazi, Libya, when Hillary refused extra security, and now we depend on catching lightning on a clock tower... ?
Wait a minute... wait a minute, I know this story...
;-)
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