Question: do you believe in the god atom when collide with another of its type couldcreate a big bang/the big bang

Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 18 Jun 2014:

I’m not really 100% sure what you mean by the god atom. I think maybe you are talking about the Higgs boson? I think in the medias they called it the ‘god particle’…

If this is what you mean, then no, I don’t think it’s possible. The Big Bang happens at energies MUCH MUCH higher than the energies at which we have discovered the Higgs boson. If you were to give that much energy to the Higgs boson, it probably decompose into more fundamental constituents (like strings, if string theory is correct).

Here is an analogy. To understand what it means that at high enough energy, the Higgs particle, or any other particle we know, decomposes into more fundamental components, you can think of the Higgs as bowl full of fruits. Adding energy is like shaking the bowl. If I don’t shake too hard, the fruits stay in the bowl and thinking just about the bowl (here the Higgs), not the individual fruits, is good enough. But if I shake REALLY hard (or if I give it a LOT of energy), the fruits will fly all over the place and then I have to think of the fruits individually to know where everything is (here the fruits are the fundamental components).

However, if I regardless start colliding Higgs bosons at higher and higher energies, eventually (at energies much higher than what we have ever collided anything on earth) I will produce a black hole, rather than a big bang!