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.

[PATRIOT1876]

My guess is that God might ask Hawking this question after he dies:

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know.”
~Job 38:4

[beethovenfan]

Hawking would do well to fear God, not the “God particle”.

[Red Badger]

Or it might become a horse stable.......................

[smokingfrog]

shut it down

[Rummyfan]

...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.

Yeah, well... Far far down my list of things to worry about.

[BitWielder1]

So billions of supernova explosions and an unknown number black hole collisions didn't have enough energy destroy the universe but a subatomic particle collision in a lab might?

[sodpoodle]

***Has Hawking ever discovered anything?***

Have you read his biography?

An astonishing human being with challenges that few mortals could overcome and a sense of wonder that only God fearing people possess.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"100bn giga-electron-volts? That’s gonna leave a mark or at least fry some hair."

[longfellow]

Sheldon Cooper will save us.

[Moonman62]

Hawking isn’t as smart as his media reputation would suggest. How many bets has he lost with other physicists?

[Rummyfan]

Seinfeld of course!

[Red Badger]

Clinton’s former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders “We’re all probably going to die from something, sooner or later.” .......................

[b4its2late]

Well, I guess if we got to be obliterated, there’s not a whole lot we can do to stop it, so just keep praying.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Screw all these people. Until they are willing to wander around small Midwest towns with sandwich boards proclaiming “Repent! The End is Near!” they ain’t got it.

[SandRat]

I thought he would use an anry wife to destroy our world.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

LOL, yeah, that would do it, in my estimation.

[tennmountainman]

No, I have not. Have you?

If so, what big stuff has he discovered?

[Little Ray]

This creates some interesting postulations.

1. There are very few or no technological alien races. If there were, one of them would have likely caused the proposed disaster and destroyed the universe.

2. There are plenty of technological alien races, but the danger is not as great as Dr. Hawking proposes, because they managed to get past this threat without “destroying the universe.”

3. We’re the most advanced technological race in the universe (subset of 1 of above?).

3. All projections are wrong and there is no “god particle” and this is all balderdash.

[JimRed]

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

...and He's more than a particle!