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.
5. This already has happened and we are all caught in some bizarre space-time loop in which events keep repeating themselves - and this is why we keep electing Democrats.
Hmmmmm .... maybe I should hold off on my sex change operation.
Stop man made Cosmic decay!
They did. We call it The Big Bang.
Or our universe could be the by-product of the destruction of another universe?
Which may already have been achieved in a super black hole billions of light years away (ago). The switch on the Doomsday Machine may have been already thrown; we just don't know it yet. What's on TV tonight?
Jeez what a waste of reporting or is it just because Stephen Hawkings spoke?
If a billion exploding super novas haven’t had enough energy to destabilize it, then it can’t be destabilized.
Next.
Wow that global warming crap must really be falling apart faster than thought if academia has to run all the way to particle physics for their next Chicken Little scenario.
Even if we did have warning, what would we do? Plan an escape?
B-B-b-but it might be the Billion and 1st that does us in!..................
Shocking!
Does Fringe really get better after Season 1? I can see the appeal of the show, but I couldn’t make it past the 15th or so episode.
I was never a big X Files fan and that show reeked of X Files :-).
Throw one helluva party!.....................
They already talked about this in Ghostbusters:
I'll take screaming, ignorant journalists for $1000, Alex...................
“God Particle”? I thought that he was an avowed atheist.
If we are merely evolved critters, what’s the worry?
There was a movie in the 80’s called Creator with Peter O’Toole. One of my favorite lines (I’m paraphrasing). “When science finally climbs to the mountaintop, it will find God has been sitting there all along.”
I know the whole country is basically divided on that one but I’m in the “it was great” camp.
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