Nobel Prize-winning physicist predicts the date of humanity’s destruction

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“I feel it’s not a rigorous estimate that the chances are more likely 2%. So that’s a 1 in 50 chance every year.”

‘You have about 35 years’
Gross emphasized how quickly long-term risk grows when annual probabilities accumulate.

“Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people…that the chances of you living 50 [more] years are very small. Due to the danger of nuclear war, you have about 35 years,” said Gross, who won the 2004 Nobel prize in physics for developing the theory of asymptotic freedom.

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