Thursday, October 15, 2009

Sabotaged From the Future: The Large Hadron Collider and a Fantastic Theory.



This December, The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva will once again be revved up by CERN and start smashing atoms together in the search for the forces and particles that participated in first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. 

No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

 This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”
Seriously?!  Wow.

1 comment:

  1. Are they selling tickets?!
    I was hoping my 2012 birthday would be the end but I think to witness the beginning of time at what could be the end of it would be a better party.

    Thanks Nerd!

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