The famous scientist Stephen Hawking has suggested that the Higgs boson particle has the potential to break down space and time.
The Large Hadron Collider caused a panic among the public during its discovery for the Higgs Boson due to belief that a sufficiently high-energy collision could produce a black hole that would eat up the whole planet.
Now Professor Stephen Hawking's new book "Starmus", raises similar concerns due to its preface in which the celebrated physicist suggests that the Higgs Boson could destroy the entire universe.
While he stresses that such an eventuality is extremely unlikely, the possibility exists that should the particle become unstable at high energy levels it could collapse complete space and time.
"The Higgs boson potential has the troublesome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 billion giga electron volts," he wrote. "This could mean that the universe could undergo devastating vacuum decay, with a tiny bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light."
"This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming."
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| Stephen Hawking lecturing at KU Leuven University, Belgium, October 2011 |
The Large Hadron Collider caused a panic among the public during its discovery for the Higgs Boson due to belief that a sufficiently high-energy collision could produce a black hole that would eat up the whole planet.
Now Professor Stephen Hawking's new book "Starmus", raises similar concerns due to its preface in which the celebrated physicist suggests that the Higgs Boson could destroy the entire universe.
While he stresses that such an eventuality is extremely unlikely, the possibility exists that should the particle become unstable at high energy levels it could collapse complete space and time.
"The Higgs boson potential has the troublesome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 billion giga electron volts," he wrote. "This could mean that the universe could undergo devastating vacuum decay, with a tiny bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light."
"This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming."
keep visiting "hotgravity.blogspot.com" for more :)
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