The God Particle

                     

'The God particle' also known as Higgs boson particle was discovered in 2013, with the help of the Hadron collider. It was said to be “the missing cornerstone of particle physics” by the CERN director.
        Many disputes have been over why this is named so. Basically this particle gives an explanation of the origin of the universe.  It is a physical proof of an invisible, universe wide field which gave mass to all particles after the Big Bang.
        This field better known as the “Higg's field” is different from all other fields as it is present everywhere even in vacuum. Now after providing mass it forced all particles to merge and form the stars, planets and led to the formation of the whole Milky Way galaxy.
         So it was a very essential particle leading to the origin of the universe and gradually life as we know it.
               

Now what is it's relation to time travel?

The physicists believe that, through the Hadron collider a particle called Higg’s singlet (purely theoretical) maybe able to travel through space and time avoiding all big paradoxes. If scientists can control the production of Higg's singlets then there may be a possibility that messages can be send to the past or future. Although human beings cannot undergo time travel since their body is not adapted to do so. Thereafter its obvious that, we cannot go to the past and change it. But maybe with the experimental discovery of the Higg's singlet, there can be a great chance of sending messages to the past or future.
Why did Stephen Hawking say that “God particle” could wipe out the universe?

On the discovery of the Higgs boson, the theory of a Higgs Boson doomsday may seem more realistic. Here it says that, a quantum fluctuation can create a bubble that expands through space which wipes out the universe that existed all this while.         

 Universe doomsday

The precise mass to keep the universe at the brink of instability is 126 billion electron volts which is 126 times the mass of proton. Hence scientists concluded that, this delicate state of the universe may collapse and the universe will become unstable.
      An unlikely quantum fluctuation or a change in energy could trigger “quantum tunnelling” which will form this “bubble”, expanding at the speed of light through space time. Now the Higg's field inside that bubble will be stronger and have a lower energy level than it's surrounding.The field inside this bubble has the capability to cause shrinking of atoms, disintegrating atomic nuclei and make it such that hydrogen will be the only existing element in the universe.
       Scientists say that, we are right on the edge between a stable and unstable universe according to theoretical calculations. Hence the universe can go “boom” anyday since we aren't aware whether this bubble exists yet or whether it's already on its way.

  -Ankita Chowdhury
Biotechnology 1st year
           


References:

1. MSNBC.com
2. interestingengineering.com
3. theguardian.com
4. Livescience.com
5.businessinsider.com