Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say | |
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(OP) User ID: 194441 United States 03/16/2010 10:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The LHC, they suggest, may be sabotaging itself from the future — twisting time to generate a series of scientific setbacks that will prevent the machine fulfilling its destiny. At first sight, this theory fits comfortably into the crackpot tradition linking the start-up of the LHC with terrible disasters. The best known is that the £3 billion particle accelerator might trigger a black hole capable of swallowing the Earth when it gets going. Scientists enjoy laughing at this one. This time, however, their ridicule has been rather muted — because the time travel idea has come from two distinguished physicists who have backed it with rigorous mathematics. What Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, are suggesting is that the Higgs boson, the particle that physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be “abhorrent to nature”. What does that mean? According to Nielsen, it means that the creation of the boson at some point in the future would then ripple backwards through time to put a stop to whatever it was that had created it in the first place. This, says Nielsen, could explain why the LHC has been hit by mishaps ranging from an explosion during construction to a second big bang that followed its start-up. Whether the recent arrest of a leading physicist for alleged links with Al-Qaeda also counts is uncertain. Nielsen’s idea has been likened to that of a man travelling back through time and killing his own grandfather. “Our theory suggests that any machine trying to make the Higgs shall have bad luck,” he said. Last Edited by Czarcasym on 03/16/2010 10:19 PM ...Do You Even Couth, Bro... A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine |
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(OP) User ID: 194441 United States 03/16/2010 10:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow!! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 878917That so totally fits in with a lot of other information on here lately! This is an incredible article OP... Thanks!! . I know it's a little old but it seems to fit with some of the talk today.... thanks ...Do You Even Couth, Bro... A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine |
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(OP) User ID: 194441 United States 03/16/2010 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the LHC must be turned off or destroyed! Quoting: Simon23k 913477It seems to be taking care of that....itself.... :5: ...Do You Even Couth, Bro... A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine |
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(OP) User ID: 194441 United States 03/16/2010 11:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is definitely a sign that the world has gotten very, very strange when I find myself entertaining ideas such as this one. It has, and I am.... what next? Wait... don't answer that question. Quoting: sockmonkeywrench 916973Yea, really it was a good movie, but now the scientist are saying their own equipment is trying to prevent them from turning it on... From the future no less... What next??? Indeed... ...Do You Even Couth, Bro... A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine |
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