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The Higgs, the subatomic particle that physicists are hunting, can cause the universe to die after a few billion years.

In July last year, physicists from the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) announced they had found a particle with the same characteristics as the Higgs particle, which produced mass for matter in the universe. , thanks to the large particle accelerator (LHC). They continue to collect more data to prove the new particle is the Higgs.

The simulation of the Higgs particle search process by giving threads
protons collide face-to-face with tremendous speed in the accelerator.

The demonstration of the new particle, the Higgs, not only helps scientists find a way to explain the mass of matter, but also allows them to make new calculations about the universe. For example, the mass of a new particle is about 126 times the mass of a proton - a figure just enough to cause unrest in the universe.

At the annual meeting of the American High-level Science Association on February 18, Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the US, declared that the Higgs particle is a bad omen of the fate of the universe, Livescience reported.

"According to our calculations, the universe is always in a state of turmoil. Due to instability, after several billion years, the universe will perish , " Lykken said.

Scientists believe that the Higgs is present everywhere. Thus it affects space-time gaps (including three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time) in the universe.

"The mass of Higgs is related to the stability of that gap. If the mass of the Higgs particle is only slightly increased or decreased, the universe will not perish , " said Christopher Hill, a theoretical physicist at Fermilab. explain.