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.
Well then, it only happens every 14 billion years or so.
Hey Steve, the end is coming and then you get meet God, who you don’t believe, how brilliant!
So that's the old quantum fluctuation trick!
Yes, now about String Theory..."
similar things were said of the A Bomb before it was tested.
and the breaking of the sound barrier as well IIRC.
I believe that junction box is beyond its rated conductor fill volume.
Does anyone have a GIF of the Lost In Space robot waving it’s arms saying danger Will Robinson ?
“They did. We call it The Big Bang.”
I like it. I don’t believe it - but I like the idea. Would make a great ending to a movie.
What does a 72 year old cosmetologist have to do with physics?
Thank you, that’s close enough. Every time these doom hawkers spout off I get the mental image of that robot.
‘Making up’ for lost time?...................
Hawking embarrassed himself something fierce when he came out with his idiotic “m-verse” theory. And Einstein was right - the quantum physicists are mistaken, at least so far. Maybe they’ll go back and rework the math, but maybe not. The hubris of scientists is all too well known.
yep-
calls heaven a fantasy- “along with God”
I can see that. Some astro-archaeologist has found evidence (forget it, Jake, it’s Hollywood!) of the civilization that did it last time and is rushing to stop the experiment. Which of course was taken control of by some hard headed general who won’t allow anyone to interfere. But some mad evolutionist is on the general’s team and he knows what’s going to happen and wants it to because he thinks the universe needs a re-boot. (Because of evil white men and hard headed generals and such.) The evolutionist convinces the general that the archaeologist is the psycho and those two are the arch enemies throughout the film. Both the first and last scenes of the movie are the same stupendous CGI rendering of the Big Bang.
While Hawking is undeniably brilliant, he is also insane.
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