Stephen Hawking 'God particle' could destroy the universe

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Stephen Hawking 'God particle' could destroy the universe

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Stephen Hawking, who once cautioned that both artificial intelligence and invading aliens could wipe out the human race, now has another dire prediction – the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” might destroy the universe. In a preface to a new book, Hawking describes his concern that if the particle became unstable, the “universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay,” according to the U.K.’s Sunday Times.

Hawking’s gloomy theory appears in the forward to Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space, a collection of lectures by noteworthy astronomers and researchers. In the piece, Hawking writes that the particle “has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GEV),” reports CNET.

According to Hawking, the vacuum decay “could expand at the speed of light” and that this could “happen at any time and we couldn’t see it coming.” While that statement might be cause for alarm, Hawking acknowledges in the essay that this threat is highly theoretical. A particle accelerator that could even reach 100bn GEV would need to be larger than the Earth itself, and would “unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.”

While this cataclysmic scenario is unlikely to happen any time in the near future, Hawking writes that looking into the Higgs boson’s potential instability sheds light on insights into the universe.

Hawking writes that the possible destruction of the Higgs boson “places important constraints on the evolution of the universe,” reports the IB Times.

Fellow scientists have long looked at some of Hawking’s darker predictions with skepticism. Beyond the fears over alien invaders and warnings about the uprising of smart machines, he also stated in 2012 that human life has only about 1,000 years left on Earth before being wiped out by man-made viruses, according to Mic.com.

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[Enigmatism]

The Higgs Boson, the very foundation of reality is likened to a giant blanket in which all of existance sits upon. If this can be manipulated to an absurd manner, it could be used to warp reality or destroy it. Let us hope that this isn't weaponized as it can also be used for (if done with benevolence in mind) great good to create a utopia as well. The world elites currently in charge could of course use this for bad and I HOPE that this is not the case.

Being able to manipulate the "God Particle" would require a lot of energy which I can't see being done unless they use Zero Point energy which is a highly suppressed technology due to it's ability to ALSO be weaponized.

[CODYQX4]

The Higgs Boson, the very foundation of reality is likened to a giant blanket in which all of existance sits upon. If this can be manipulated to an absurd manner, it could be used to warp reality or destroy it. Let us hope that this isn't weaponized as it can also be used for (if done with benevolence in mind) great good to create a utopia as well. The world elites currently in charge could of course use this for bad and I HOPE that this is not the case.

I don't see anything like this happening, that being said I've heard a Chemistry teacher say just a small little bit of antimatter would destroy an entire continent if used as a nuke.

I bet we know more about antimatter than the "god particle", even if we are a good way's away from that.

We are perfectly capable of fucking up the world beyond all salvation with what we have now, and we've done a great job at that in the last 2 centuries.

[0veR]

He is full of shit he dont know anything!