Higgs boson has potential to destroy entire universe says Stephen Hawking
God particle ... The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 by scientists at the Cern particle accelerator in Switzerland. Picture: AFP SCIENTIST Stephen Hawking has warned that the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle, could cause space and time to collapse. But there is time for lunch: It may take trillions of years to topple. The British professor said that at very high energy levels the Higgs boson – the subatomic particle which gives us our shape and size - could become so unstable that it would cause space and time to collapse. Hawking made his comments in the preface to a new book, Starmus . The Higgs boson field is the force within the universe which give particles mass and therefore acts as the “glue” which holds everything together. Without that “glue”, we’d all disintegrate at the speed of light. Now, Hawking’s comments that the Higgs “has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable” at very high energies has reignited unfounded fears t...