Stephen Hawking has recently warned that the God particle or Higgs boson has the potential to obliterate the universe.
The 72-year-old cosmologist said Higgs boson could become unstable at very high energy levels, which would lead to a “catastrophic vacuum decay” causing space and time to collapse and that there would not be any warning to the danger,.
Speaking in the preface to a new book called Starmus, the Cambridge-educated scientist said that the Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become mega-stable at energies above 100bn giga-electron-volts (GeV).
However, Hawking did also mention that the likelihood of such a disaster was unlikely to happen in the near future.
The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by scientists at CERN, who operate the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
