10 Ways The Universe Could Kill Us All Tomorrow If It Wanted To

4. The Higgs-Boson

Switzerland's most famous resident and the poster-boy for particles everywhere, the Higgs-Boson will probably be the death of all life on earth one way or another. Stephen Hawking thinks so, and he's apparently something of an expert. The theory comes from the very real possibility that the particle could create a vacuum bubble that would expand throughout the entire universe wiping out everything along with it. Thankfully, our experiments so far haven't had this side effect, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened somewhere else. Whether some other civilisation has destroyed themselves with it or this calamity has found a way to occur naturally, a Higgs-Boson shockwave could be tearing through time and space this very second. If so, it'll currently be travelling at the speed of light in every direction, meaning that while it might have taken millions of years to reach earth, it wouldn't be spotted before it undid all of existence.