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.
Einstein was doubly wrong when he said, God does not play dice. Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.
- Stephen Hawking
http://www.hawking.org.uk/does-god-play-dice.html
dooooooomage!!
How to make money selling a coffee-table book about cosmology to millions of people who never bothered to read it.
Just finishing up season 3 of Fringe right now.
same thing was happening in 2010-2011.
Dang, but I’ve got plans for the weekend...
BRILLIANT!!!
That was a fun show.
The large Hydron collider has already thrown us into the evil mirror mirror parallel universe where the U.S. spies on it’s own citizens and elects muslim sympathizers while Russia lectures us on western values.
We might as well bring it all down.
If a Christian preacher claimed the same, the media reaction and public reaction would be: _____________________
The Higgs boson! Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!
This poor pathetic man will do almost anything to get his name in the news. His laughably irrational ideas have been so discredited that he has to do the equivalent of screaming “THE END IS NEAR!!!” for anyone to listen.
As if I didn’t have enough to worry about already!
So now we know why the Universe is silent.
Nope. Given that the universe is massive if not infinite, there would have been some other race that would have done this experiment which would have 'obliterated the universe'. Ergo, no such obliteration can or will occur.
100bn giga-electron-volts? That’s gonna leave a mark or at least fry some hair.
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