Hawking is not the only scientist who thinks so. The theory of a Higgs boson doomsday, where a quantum fluctuation creates a vacuum "bubble" that expands through space and wipes out the universe, has been around for a while. However, scientists don't think it could happen anytime soon.

Most likely it will take 10 to the power 100 years [a 1 followed by 100 zeroes] for this to happen. On the other hand, it may already have happened, and the bubble might be on its way here. And you won't know because it's going at the speed of light, so there's not going to be any warning.

The Higgs boson is sometimes referred to as the God Particle. Its discovery lends strong support to the Standard Model of particle physics, which is thought to govern the basic building blocks of matter. The Higgs boson particle is important to the Standard Model because it signals the existence of the Higgs field, an invisible energy field present throughout the universe that imbues other particles with mass.

Now that scientists have measured the particle's mass, they can make many other calculations, including one that seems to point to the end of the universe.

Right now the Higgs field is in a minimum potential energy state — like a valley in a field of hills and valleys. The huge amount of energy required to change into another state is like chugging up a hill. If the Higgs field makes it over that energy hill, some physicists think the destruction of the universe is waiting on the other side.

But an unlucky quantum fluctuation, or a change in energy, could trigger a process called "quantum tunneling." Instead of having to climb the energy hill, quantum tunneling would make it possible for the Higgs field to "tunnel" through the hill into the next, even lower-energy valley.

This quantum fluctuation could happen somewhere out in the empty vacuum of space between galaxies and create an expanding "bubble”.

Using a calculation that involves the currently known mass of the Higgs boson, researchers predict this bubble would contain an ultra-strong Higgs field that would expand at the speed of light through space-time. The expansion would be unstoppable and would wipe out everything in the existing universe.

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