Did CERN Break The Speed Of Light?

Here is what Stephen Hawking had to say about the project:

In July 2012, when scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider culminated decades of work with their discovery of the Higgs boson, most physicists celebrated. Stephen Hawking did not. The famed theorist expressed his disappointment that nothing more unusual was found, calling the discovery “a pity in a way.” But did he ever say the Higgs could destroy the universe?

That’s what many reports in the media said earlier this week, quoting a preface Hawking wrote to a book called Starmus. According to The Australian, the preface reads in part: “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 [billion] gigaelectronvolts (GeV). This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming.”

Is he right that people should not be playing with these things?  Feel free to comment.

thanks to popularmechanics.com for the info



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  3. Ian Henry said:

    Dan Levin that was Albert Einstein theory on Quantum Entanglement, or spooky action at a distance. We have already proved it.

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  16. John Roberts said:

    ” the best fit model for current data has a slight preference for dynamics (w(a)ne-1), degrees of freedom distinct from quintessence (c_sne1), and early presence of dark energy (Omega_ de(a<<1)ne0). " -Roland de Putter, Dragan Huterer, Eric V. Linder et al.

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