Hawking God Particle Discovery

When he speaks, scientists listen. Considered by many as the smartest living man in the world, professor Stephen Hawking once bet another scientist a hundred bucks he would never find the so-called “God gene.”

Years ago, scientists made similar wagers about finding the atom. But now, after years of developments, we’ve discovered an atom is made of protons, neutrons and electrons, then even smaller, down to quarks and leptons, but without the so called “God Particle,” researchers believe none of those would stick together.

Now, we know that particle as Higgs boson, a sort of glue element that holds everything together. Particle physics can get extremely complicated, but scientists essentially believe this “God gene” is the particle that gives things mass.

By itself, it may not be very interesting. But in Stephen Hawking’s new book, all of a sudden, there’s a reason to pay more attention to it.

Communicating with assistance of a computer, Hawking talked about his new book Starmus. That’s when he revealed the Higgs Boson could become so unstable, it could literally cause space and time to collapse. According to Hawking’s premise, if this phenomenon to take place, he says it would cause a type of “black hole” on earth. He went on to say, this could happen at any time and we would never even see it coming.

It’s hard to prove or disprove Hawking’s theory at this point, because physicists don’t have a particle accelerator to text or experiment with the Higgs Boson. In fact, a particle accelerator big enough to conduct the experiment would actually have to be bigger than Earth itself.

So to wrap this up, the smartest man in the world thinks the whole universe could come to a catastrophic end with no prior warning, they can’t test it and it could happen at any time.

So what do we take away from this? It’s really hard to say. Until now, every single “end of the world” prediction hasn’t amounted to anything. But one prediction we DO know will come true: this new discovery will give us a few more bad movies, pick up lines and jokes about the Cubs making the World Series.