Stephen Hawking warns God particle has potential to 'end world' [Universe in DANGER!]

timesofindia.indiatimes.com ^ | Sep 8, 2014, 12.32 PM IST | Staff

[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.

[Red Badger]

So that's how God is gonna do it!....................

[samtheman]

When it happens it will be exactly like the ending of Sopranos.

[knittnmom]

I thought he didn’t believe in God...

[TexasCajun]

Higgs needs to line up behind Algore.

[SkyPilot]

Someone tell this “genius” to read the Book of Revelation.

[PGR88]

This clown is ripe for a death-bed conversion.

[I want the USA back]

” Cambridge-educated scientist”
proves that a degree from a famous university doesn’t mean you are smart.

[Paul46360]

[left that other site]

Exactly!

I thought there was something wrong with my TV.

[MeshugeMikey]

[DuncanWaring]

Women and children hardest hit!

[tennmountainman]

Has Hawking ever discovered anything?

[Red Badger]

Catastrophism Ping!...................

[Maceman]

Only one way to save us from this horror:

MORE COWBELL TAXES!!

[joethedrummer]

Okay Washington DC, you know what THIS means!!!

YOU must FIX it wiiiiiith....

A NEW TAX!!!!

YAYYYYY!!!!!!

And all in DC say - “Thank you, Stephen!!!”

[Red Badger]

said that the Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become mega-stable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV)

That would be 100 Giga-Giga-Electron Volts................better use a high impedance meter to measure that with a loooooon probe,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Maceman]

“NIETZSCHE IS PIETZSCHE.” — Maceman

[mikrofon]

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

Recommended solutions to this "crisis" from the cognoscenti:
- Take steps to halt Global Climate Change
- Enact a Comprehensive "immigration" policy
- Collect higher Taxes in general for the Federal Gov't & U.N. endeavors