How many of Hawking's six amazing predictions do you know?

Date: 202 1.03.24

Prediction 1: Two centuries later, human beings need to colonize aliens, otherwise they will become extinct.

Hawking said that if human beings want to continue, they must emigrate to Mars or other planets, and the earth will die sooner or later. As for this time limit, Hawking predicted that the earth would be destroyed within 200 years.

Hawking said in an interview with a website: "Human beings must seriously consider their own survival in the next few hundred years. I have seen the dangers of human beings, and there have been many crises of human existence in the past. The frequency of similar situations will increase, and we need to be very careful to avoid such crises. But I am an optimist. If mankind can successfully expand into outer space in the next 200 years, then we can avoid disaster.

Prediction 2: Humans should avoid contact with aliens.

Hawking said that alien civilization has a higher development than human civilization, and the technology mastered by aliens is much higher than that of human beings. It is very dangerous for human beings to contact and look for aliens all the time. Once the coordinates of the earth are discovered by aliens, it may lead to aliens invading the earth.

History has proved that advanced civilization cannot be friendly to backward civilization. They just value the resources of backward civilization. For example, when European civilization treated American Indian civilization. Similarly, if human civilization meets advanced alien civilization, it is likely to be colonized by alien civilization, and human civilization will be interrupted. Therefore, Hawking warned humans not to take the initiative to contact and look for alien civilizations more than once.

Prediction 3: Artificial intelligence will replace human beings.

Hawking made a prediction about artificial intelligence a long time ago. Hawking believes that the rapid development of artificial intelligence has greatly promoted the development of human science and technology, but when artificial intelligence develops to a certain extent, it may evolve self-awareness and emotion. At that time, artificial people may not listen to human command, betray human beings, and even have a war with human beings.

If human beings develop a war with artificial intelligence, with the powerful replication ability of artificial intelligence, human beings may not be opponents. It is possible that the new owner of the earth will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Such a thing may only appear in science fiction movies in the eyes of many people, but Hawking doesn't think so. Science fiction events in movies may not become a reality in the future.

Of course, it is not easy for artificial intelligence to develop to the extent predicted by Hawking. It is possible that human civilization at that time has become a powerful interstellar civilization, and there have been technical means to limit the evolution of artificial intelligence into self-awareness. In any case, the threat of artificial intelligence to human beings may be frequently mentioned in the future.

Prediction 4: Higgs boson will destroy the universe

The Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, is a massless particle, the most famous and important of all particles, and the only massless particle among all 62 particles. It is a boson with zero spin in the standard model of particle physics.

If there were no God particles, all particles in the universe would move at the speed of light. Running at such a fast speed, particles will not combine, atoms, molecules, DNA and protein will not be produced, there will be no life, there will be no human beings and no other substances, and there will be nothing in the universe.

Hawking's point of view shows that if the Higgs boson reaches a very high energy level, exceeding 1000 billion GeV, then this particle may become unstable, which will lead to the collapse of space-time.

But in Hawking's own view, this situation is almost impossible because scientists have not built enough particle accelerators. To make the Higgs boson reach such a high energy level, the corresponding accelerator is even bigger than the earth.

Prediction 5: Gene technology will improve human beings.

Hawking boldly predicted that human beings will not only establish new living bases on other planets in the next 100 year, but also use genetic technology to improve existing races in the next hundred years or earlier.

Hawking said in a speech on the theme of "Science of the Future" to more than 3,000 audiences in Mumbai, India, whether human beings like it or not, someone will definitely design improved varieties of human beings somewhere in the future. As a master of science and technology with broad vision, Hawking also predicted in his speech that human beings will cultivate embryos outside the uterus in the next few hundred years.

Prophecy 6: Heaven does not exist.

Hawking denied the idea that life goes on after death more than once. He thinks the brain is like a computer. When a part breaks down, it will stop running. For a computer that stops running, there is neither heaven nor life after death. He believes that believing in heaven and the afterlife is just a "fairy tale" for those who are afraid of death. At the last moment of life, nothing exists except the tremor of the brain.

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