Professor Stephen Hawking warns 'the end of the world is nigh' and Earth could be engulfed in a 'ball of fire'

Esteemed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has dramatically warned 'the end of the world is nigh'.

The Cambridge University-based genius claims we have got less than 600 years left as a species to do something before a “ball of fire” engulfs the Earth.

In a video appearance at the 2017 Tencent WE Summit in Beijing on Sunday, the world-renowned scientist warned that overcrowding and energy consumption could bring about a fiery end to the planet within 600 years.

The end would come in a “ball of fire,” he is reported to have said, according to the Cambridge News .Esteemed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has dramatically warned 'the end of the world is nigh'.

The Cambridge University-based genius claims we have got less than 600 years left as a species to do something before a “ball of fire” engulfs the Earth.

In a video appearance at the 2017 Tencent WE Summit in Beijing on Sunday, the world-renowned scientist warned that overcrowding and energy consumption could bring about a fiery end to the planet within 600 years.

The end would come in a “ball of fire,” he is reported to have said, according to the Cambridge News .
Professor Hawking sees an answer in Breakthrough Starshot, the $100 million research and engineering program announced in 2016. The A Brief History of Time author and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg sit on the project’s board.