Stephen Hawking News Today: Physicist Says Planet Earth Won't Stay Longer
The possibility for our planet Earth to suffer from major disaster could rise to a "near certainty" in thousand years but, with the peaking progress of science and technology, the thousand years could become a hundred years - at least that what Stephen Hawkings said which appeared in the news today, including Time. Hawking also added that we need to be "very careful" over the next century.
Hawkings was interviewed by The Radio Times and was asked if the world would end in a natural way or will the humans will just destroy it slowly but gradually, and the 74-year-old cosmologist expressed his thought. "We face a number of threats: nuclear war, global warming and genetically engineered viruses," Hawkings answered the question by Radio Times, as reported by Telegraph.
"Although the chance of a disaster on planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, becoming a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years...by that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so it would not mean the end of the human race," Hawking said.
Stephen Hawkings, who became famous for his contributions in cosmology and quantum gravity among others that is being used up to today and made him news worthy, said that people should be mindful of not ravaging the Earth in the interim although he believes that in 100 years humans will be living in space. "We will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period," he said.
"Although the chance of a disaster on planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, becoming a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years...by that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so it would not mean the end of the human race," added Hawking.
We've been hearing a lot of disaster stories from the news of today so Stephen Hawking may be right after all.
