Stephen Hawking has warned of the mortal danger of experiments with the Higgs boson – 3DNews

The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking believes that further experiments with the Higgs boson can lead to a catastrophe on the scale of the universe, as the boson can cause the disappearance of time and space. « The Higgs boson is a very dangerous potential: in the case of entering into a state of heightened instability it could lead to the collapse of the vacuum », – an opinion expressed by a scientist in the preface to the book «Starmus: 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight , “which is scheduled for October.

Stephen Hawking visited in 2006, the Large Hadron Collider

It should immediately reassure our readers that at the present stage of development of science experiments until scientists does not get any. To achieve the state of instability of the Higgs boson, capable of destroying the equilibrium that emerged during the formation of the universe, will require an enormous amount of energy – about 100 billion GeV (GeV), according to calculations of Hawking. Based on the available capacity of science and modern technology, it requires accelerator exceeding dimensions of the Earth.

Hawking theory is based on the assumption that there are two types of vacuum with different amounts of energy – false and true. Our universe is, according to the scientist, in the false vacuum. Boson instability can lead to an imbalance and instantaneous transition of the universe in a different physical state.

By the way, Hawking not only among scientists who think so. The theory of the end of the light due to the Higgs boson as a quantum fluctuation creates a vacuum “bubble”, expanding in space and “erasing” the universe has existed for some time. However, scientists do not think it could happen in the near future.

« This can happen in 10 – 100 years, so it is not necessary to sell the house and stop paying taxes , – said physicist Joseph Lykken (Joseph Lykken) at a lecture at the Institute of Joseph Lykken.- On the other hand, it may have already happened, and the bubble may already be in development. And you will not know about it, because the process is growing at the speed of light, so that no warnings will not ».

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