{"id":1615,"date":"2014-09-24T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:29:44","slug":"stephen-hawking-fears-higgs-boson-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/stephen-hawking-fears-higgs-boson-doomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking Fears &#8220;Higgs Boson Doomsday&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/stephen-hawking-fears-higgs-boson-doomsday\/\" data-text=\"Stephen Hawking Fears &#038;%238220;Higgs Boson Doomsday&#038;%238221;&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/stephen-hawking-fears-higgs-boson-doomsday-hes-not-alone-n198766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The headline of this story at NBC.com is &#8220;Stephen Hawking Fears Higgs Boson Doomsday and He&#8217;s Not Alone<\/a>&#8220;. \u00a0I have no idea what that actually means, but if Stephen Hawking fears it then so do I. \u00a0I guess that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s not alone. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/27218-higgs-boson-universe-future.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is an article that explains what the Higgs Boson Doomsday is<\/a>. \u00a0Let me see if I can get this straight &#8211; because the Higgs Boson, the energy field of which is the source of mass for everything in the universe, is estimated to be just the right mass in itself to cause the potential instability of said universe, there is a theoretical possibility that said universe might become unstable and instantaneously cease to exist. \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0I don&#8217;t understand it either. \u00a0But these guys do and they say it&#8217;s possible. \u00a0Ironically (!) if the mass of the Higgs Boson were different by just a few percent, we wouldn&#8217;t be doomed! \u00a0Boy did we luck out. \u00a0Nailed it on the first try. \u00a0Better go buy a lottery ticket.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;You won&#8217;t actually see it, because it will come at you at the speed of light,&#8221; Lykken said. &#8220;So in that sense don&#8217;t worry.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Super. \u00a0We&#8217;re all gonna die instantly at any second. \u00a0But we won&#8217;t see it coming. \u00a0<em>So don&#8217;t worry about it<\/em>. Nope. \u00a0Don&#8217;t give it a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>Stevie says <em>don&#8217;t you worry &#8217;bout a thing:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e07Ql6mEDWI?si=vtyZbXDg-szE0D1k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Pretty Mama. \u00a0On second thought, forget the lottery ticket. \u00a0If I won and then the universe ended, I would have to kill myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet The headline of this story at NBC.com is &#8220;Stephen Hawking Fears Higgs Boson Doomsday and He&#8217;s Not Alone&#8220;. \u00a0I have no idea what that actually means, but if Stephen Hawking fears it then so do I. \u00a0I guess that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s not alone. \u00a0Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}