British theoretical physicist and Professor Stephen Hawking has recently warned that the "God" particle could destroy the universe. He says that the Higgs boson could cause a ''catastrophic vacuum decay'' that undermines space-time and destroys the universe.In a preface to a new book called "Starmus", he wrote: "The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become meta stable at energies above 100bn
gigaelectronvolts (GeV)."
This means that the (Higgs Boson) elusive 'God particle' discovered by scientists in 2012, who
''believes that this gives shape and size to everything that exists - could cause a 'catastrophic vacuum delay' if scientists were to put it under extreme stress''. However, he adds, that under the present economic climate, it is very unlikely that the excited scientists would be funded such extravagant amounts of money to create a particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV.
But if the money did come rolling in, 'this could happen at any time and we wouldn't see it coming.'Starmus is due for release in early November 2014.
Source -zeenews
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