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‘God particle’ could destroy the universe: Hawking
by FluteHolder Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:25 am
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/god-particle-could-destroy-the-universestephen-hawking/article6391154.ece?homepage=true
The elusive ‘God particle’ discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned.
According to Mr. Hawking, 72, at very high energy levels the Higgs boson, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could become unstable.
This, he said, could cause a “catastrophic vacuum decay” that would lead space and time to collapse,Express.co.uk reported.
“The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megastable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV),” Hawking wrote in the preface to a new book called Starmus.
“This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light.
“This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming,” said Mr. Hawking.
The Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, was discovered in 2012 by scientists at CERN — who operate the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
Hawking said the likelihood of such a disaster is unlikely to happen in the near future, however, the danger of the Higgs becoming destabilised at high energy is too great to be ignored.
"This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming," the British physicist said
The elusive ‘God particle’ discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned.
According to Mr. Hawking, 72, at very high energy levels the Higgs boson, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could become unstable.
This, he said, could cause a “catastrophic vacuum decay” that would lead space and time to collapse,Express.co.uk reported.
“The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megastable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV),” Hawking wrote in the preface to a new book called Starmus.
“This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light.
“This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming,” said Mr. Hawking.
The Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, was discovered in 2012 by scientists at CERN — who operate the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
Hawking said the likelihood of such a disaster is unlikely to happen in the near future, however, the danger of the Higgs becoming destabilised at high energy is too great to be ignored.
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Re: ‘God particle’ could destroy the universe: Hawking
by bw Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:13 pm
forget hawking, susskind (ok, he does have a beard) etc.
what does our dearest dhaaDi maama say about this?
what does our dearest dhaaDi maama say about this?
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Re: ‘God particle’ could destroy the universe: Hawking
by Vakavaka Pakapaka Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:02 pm
Speaking on behalf of Chaddis, this Hawking baccha is just reiterating what has been predicted by sages long time ago - the whole universe collapses to re-form and start a new cycle.
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