It appears to me cosmological speculations are getting more & more pseudoscientific. I can't imagine I'm the only one here who believes so. Also, why would we trust the speculations/projections of Stephen Hawking necessarily? He has proven himself to be a horrible futurist/oracle in the past. He was one of those silly voices proclaiming "the end of science" as well as the imminent discovery of a unified field theory toward the end of the 20th century (similar to Lord Kelvin at the end of the 19th). How's that search still going over a decade later? Theorists nowadays working in super symmetric extensions of the standard model have been pretty much demonstrated wrong already by LHC results and are building their houses on sand. All sorts of inflationary multiverse cosmologies are inherently flawed & inconsistent in many ways, as best articulated by Paul Steinhart, Neil Turok, and others. Inflationary theories nowadays must posit a an infinite chaotic multiverse scenario, where anything that can happen does, lest believers concede that endless inflation is unlikely at best. Just my opinion.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.052004 > > If LENR is a mechanism that can amplify quantum tunneling, it might be > conceivable that a LENR reaction will someday reduce the mass of the HIGGS > boson to about 100 GeV. This value will produce a bubble in the higgs field > that will expand at the speed of light and destabilize matter as it expands. > > > *Stephen Hawking Believes Higgs Boson Particle May Destroy Universe* > > http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.052004 >
