Stephen Hawking: 'God particle' could destroy the universe
Stephen Hawking: 'God particle' could destroy the universe
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.
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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