Higgs boson find may spell doom for universe

[jobberone]

A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say. The mass of the particle, which was uncovered at the world's largest particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva — is a key ingredient in a calculation that portends the future of space and time.

'Many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe.'

- Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

"This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said Monday, Feb. 18, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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[visionary]

Originally Posted by jobberone

"This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said Monday,

sounds like i need to get my affairs in order

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by visionary

sounds like i need to get my affairs in order

you beat me to it

[JBond]

[big dog cowboy]

But even if the universe is in for an unfortunate end, there is at least one reason for consolation.

"You won't actually see it, because it will come at you at the speed of light," Lykken said. "So in that sense don't worry."

Sweet.