Stephen Hawking Predicts That The Earth Will Be An Uninhabitable Fireball in 600 Years
Speaking at the Tencent WE Summit held in Beijing this year, famous physicist Stephen Hawking said that several factors can render the Earth uninhabitable. He predicts that in 600 years, the world, as humans know it, will turn into a giant fireball similar to the sun. Hawking further appealed to investors in his mission to scour the universe for a habitable planet.
Hawking's prediction was made through a video that was shown during the Tencent WE Summit. The world-renowned scientist appealed to humanity and challenged the world to "boldly go where no had before." The physicist claims that this will inevitably lead to more energy consumption, which, in 600 years, will render the Earth into nothing but a fireball.
The video featuring Hawking further stated that if humans are unsuccessful in locating a habitable planet in space, then the species might perish and the future generation will have to survive under dreadful circumstances. Hawking, who is part of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, appealed to investors to support the organization's plans to develop a spacecraft that can traverse the universe, which only relies on light for power. This can be used to search for the nearby star called Alpha Centauri, which is the closest possibly habitable world at four light-years away.
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"Such a system could reach Mars in less than an hour, or reach Pluto in days, pass Voyager in under a week and reach Alpha Centauri in just over 20 years," Hawking said at the event, as reported by CNBC.
Breakthrough Starshot's director Pete Worden also made an appearance in the Tencent WE Summit. Worden claimed that with enough resources, the first picture of a habitable planet might surface some time in the middle of the century and that more information on space may gathered at a more efficient rate.
