Stephen Hawking Fears Higgs Boson Doomsday

[Hayabusa Rider]

The fact that matter destruction like this hasn't been observed in the last 13 billion years, I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

That's an observation what brings up a question. That it hasn't happened is obvious because we're here, but you mention 13 billion years and from our perspective that's a long time, but is it really so on a scale that's relevant to physical events of such fantastic scope? Compared to the end of time assuming there is such a thing, how long have we come and long do we have left? Just a question and semi-rhetorical.

Then there is that nagging thing about us being when we are in cosmological evolution. The Higgs is apparently has us hanging on by a thread, then there's
"the" number 1/137. Lots of things have to be incredibly "just right" for our Goldilocks universe to even be here.

 

[MongGrel]

Stephen is just trolling the planet

 

[MongGrel]

if it's not 6sigma, it's nothing.
you're just a green belt

6sigma or corporate bankruptcy!

:biggrin:

 

[Fritzo]

That's an observation what brings up a question. That it hasn't happened is obvious because we're here, but you mention 13 billion years and from our perspective that's a long time, but is it really so on a scale that's relevant to physical events of such fantastic scope? Compared to the end of time assuming there is such a thing, how long have we come and long do we have left? Just a question and semi-rhetorical.

Then there is that nagging thing about us being when we are in cosmological evolution. The Higgs is apparently has us hanging on by a thread, then there's
"the" number 1/137. Lots of things have to be incredibly "just right" for our Goldilocks universe to even be here.

On average, there's a 4% variance in physical forces that would allow similar universes to exist. This would mean in a multiverse, habital universes are not very common. We don't know if there is some underlying force that molds physics to always act a certain way though. This higher physical law may say "gravity will always be this strong in 3 dimensions, allowing all of the other forces to form matter."