World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said he believes humans will not be able to exist on earth for more than 1,000 years after telling the audience the recent confirmation of the God particle will make physics boring during a speech he gave at the Science Museum in London on Nov.12, according to The Guardian.
Hawking announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, or the God particle, has now made physics boring to him because it has been one of the most important discoveries in the physics world and nothing can compare, The Guardian reported.
"Although the Higgs boson has been a theory predicted since the 1960's, the recent confirmation led the scientist to say 'physics would be far more interesting if it had not been found,'" The Guardian reported.
According to Hawking, if the particle had not been confirmed, scientist would have to go back to the drawing board and start all over, which he claims is an "exciting process" for scientist, according to The Guardian.
"A few weeks ago, Peter Higgs and François Englert shared the Nobel prize for their work on the boson and they richly deserved it," Hawking told the audience, according to The Guardian. "Congratulations to them both. But the discovery of the new particle came at a personal cost. I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. The Nobel prize cost me $100.
During the launch of a new exhibit about the Large Hadron Collider in London, Hawking, whose insight comes from studying the cosmos, told the audience a larger interest in space is needed as he believes earth will no longer be inhabitable after 1,000 years, The Guardian reported.
"We must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity," Hawking said. "I don't think we will survive another thousand years without escaping beyond our fragile planet. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space, and I've been getting my training in early."
Hawking said since the discovery, scientists could move on to other theories, like explaining the nature of the universe, or finding evidence for M-theory, which unites gravity and is the best chance, physicists believe, for uniting the four fundamental forces of nature, according to The Guardian.
"There is still hope that we see the first evidence for M-theory at the LHC particle accelerator in Geneva," Hawking said. "From an M-theory perspective, the collider only probes low energies, but we might be lucky and see a weaker signal of fundamental theory, such as supersymmetry. I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionise our understanding of the universe."
