Finding the 'God' particle could destroy the universe
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The elusive 'God particle' discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
At very high energy levels, the Higgs boson could cause space and time suddenly collapse - and 'we wouldn't see it coming', the former Cambridge professor of mathematics says.
The God particle, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could cause a 'catastrophic vacuum delay' if scientists were to put it under extreme stress.
Prof Hawking wrote: 'The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megastable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV).
'This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light.
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WHAT IS THE GOD PARTICLE?
The Higgs boson was a key missing piece in the jigsaw for physicists in trying to understand how the universe works.
Scientists believe that a fraction of a second after the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe, an invisible energy field, called the Higgs field, formed.
This has been described as a kind of ‘cosmic treacle’ across the universe. As particles passed through it, they picked up mass, giving them size and shape and allowing them to form the atoms that make up you, everything around you and everything in the universe.
This was the theory proposed in 1964 by former grammar school boy Professor Higgs that has now been confirmed.
Without the Higgs field particles would simply whizz around space in the same way as light does.
A boson is a type of sub-atomic particle. Every energy field has a specific particle that governs its interaction with what’s around it.
This is ancient news, but yeah. But it's funny, we were just discussing this in my bio class like, two hours ago. My professor must have just seen this article before class.
That's pretty cool, although I dropped out of physics pretty quickly I still feel like it would be immensely hard to get the particle to that level of stress, no?
If not, oh well. It'll be a kii.
Or maybe God created the universe, and God could easily destroy the universe if he wanted to. Just a thought.
Regardless if there's a god or gods or not we've essentially proven the origins of the universe and the existence of the Higgs Boson All of this is known and could destroy the universe without the assistance of a god (should you believe in one/many)
Or maybe God created the universe, and God could easily destroy the universe if he wanted to. Just a thought.
Why do religious folks always act like their oppressed? Not only are most people still religious, but you see how ****ed up things get when religion doesn't have at least some science to check it/balance things out.
In some places they still KILL people for being gay. Like...
Why do religious folks always act like their oppressed? Not only are most people still religious, but you see how ****ed up things get when religion doesn't have at least some science to check it/balance things out.