China to build a gigantic hadron collider that could destroy the UNIVERSE

The proposed gigantic machine will better Europe’s collider at CERN in Switzerland for both power and size.

With a staggering circumference of between 30 to 62 miles, it is long enough to circle New York's Manhattan.

But the move could have disastrous consequences for the universe as we know it – with its potential to create a black hole or spontaneously combust.

Brit scientist Professor Stephen Hawking made a bleak claim last year that search for the Higgs boson particle – often referred to as the God particle – could end the world in 10 to 100 years time.

And it has been feared building another huge collider machine – one that dwarfs CERN – could bring that date forward.

China is expected to start building its Frankenstein’s Monster of physics in 2020.

But conspiracy theorists were quick to point out the date coincides with a prophecy suggesting the arrival of the antichrist.

The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was announced by experts at the China Academy of Sciences and reportedly will generate millions of Higgs bosons particles – a huge amount more than the Large Hadron Collider.

Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Emergency Physics at the academy, said the massive tunnel will hold two super colliders.

They want the CEPC to be the first stage of the project, which aims to discover how the Higgs boson particle decays following collision.

China hopes its mean machine will get the closest humanity has ever got to creating the conditions just after the Big Bang.

Wang said the project will generate seven times the energy of Europe’s own collider.

He said: "LHC is hitting its limits of energy level.

"It seems not possible to escalate the energy dramatically ay the existing facility.

"The technical route we chose is different from the LHC.

"While the LHC smashes together protons, it generates Higgs particles together with many other particles.”

He told China Daily the CEPC, which is set to be build near the start of the Great Wall, creates a "clean environment that only produces Higgs boson particles.”

"This is a machine for the world and by the world: not a Chinese one", he added.

The second stage of the accelerator – a Super Proton-Proton Collider (SPPC) would begin construction in 2040.

Here scientists could be able to shed light on dark matter, the Big Bang and black holes.

And the process would, according to Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of the UK, leave the planet "an inert hyperdense sphere about one hundred metres across.”

But for all the advancement in science and technology, some fear human intervention into the unknown could wipe out the universe.

Prof Hawking described the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012 as a doomsday scenario.

He warned: "The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100 billion gigaelectronvolts.

"This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding the speed of light.

"This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming.”

(dailystar.co.uk)