Card #03: ⚠️ Stephen Hawking was worried
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Although it may require some mental gymnastics to wrap one's brain around exactly what the CERN scientists are attempting to achieve in their underground lab, the average layman may instinctively understand that such an
Although it may require some mental gymnastics to wrap one's brain around exactly what the CERN scientists are attempting to achieve in their underground lab, the average layman may instinctively understand that such an experiment may be wrought with unforeseeable pitfalls.
Stephen Hawking, the eminent physicist, seems to agree.
"The God particle found by CERN could destroy the universe," Hawking wrote in the preface to a book, Starmus, a collection of lectures by scientists. The Higgs Boson could become unstable at very high energy levels and have the potential to trigger a "catastrophic vacuum decay which would cause space and time to collapse and... we would not have any warning to the dangers," he continued.
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