Stephen Hawking Says God Particle Could Wipe Out the Universe Stephen Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that physicists would not discover the Higgs boson. After losing that bet when physicists detected the particle in 2012, Hawking lamented the discovery, saying it made physics less interesting. Now, in the preface to a new collection of essays and lectures called Starmus, the famous theoretical physicist is warning that the particle could one day be responsible for the destruction of the known universe. Hawking is not the only scientist who thinks so. The theory of a Higgs boson doomsday, where a quantum fluctuation creates a vacuum bubble that expands through space and wipes out the universe, has existed for a while. However, scientists dont think it could happen anytime soon. Most likely it will take 10 to the 100 years [a 1 followed by 100 zeroes] for this to happen, so probably you shouldnt sell your house and you should continue to pay your taxes, Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, said during his lecture at the SETI Institute on Sept. 2. On the other hand it may already happened, and the bubble might be on its way here now. And you wont know because its going at the speed of light so theres not going to be any warning. [Doomsday: 9 Real Ways Earth Could End]
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:58:25 +0000
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