Source: International Business Times
Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has issued a stark warning that humanity stands a slim chance of surviving another 50 years, citing the grave risk of nuclear war as the primary barrier preventing scientists from achieving a unified theory of all fundamental forces. David Gross Gross, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the strong nuclear force and asymptotic freedom, made the comments in a recent interview with Live Science while discussing the long quest for a "theory of everything" that would reconcile quantum mechanics with gravity. When asked whether physicists might complete such a unification within 50 years, the 83-year-old researcher replied bluntly that the chances of humanity lasting that long are "very small.