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.
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."
