Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged From The Future?

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http://io9.com/5380647/is-the-large-hadron-collider-being-sabotaged-from-the-future

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2

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.
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Haha, yeah that's probably why we can't build perpetual motion engines as well.
 
I don't think the future exists yet and the past is behind us. I seriously doubt that any situation the collider might create is not somewhere in the Universe going on right now. Look at a black hole for instance.
 
So black hole are actually LHC experiments gone terribly terribly wrong throughout millenia?
 
Or maybe terribly right. The black holes could have once been the stars of invadeing alien civilzations and we used the LHC to destroy thier solar systems in our present to prevent them from attacking in our futur.

Hey maybe there's a ripping good story in that?......Naaaaaaa
 
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Yeah, sorry about that. I only meant to observe. Had my flashlight laser energy setting too high zapped a hole in the helium thingy.

glenn
 
How would a Higgs Boson causes a ripple backwards through time? I don't understand how that even would arise.

Also, why do they need to create some kind of gigantic random number generator in order to predict if things will be safe. If you don't want to run the test over something so ridiculous, just don't run the test. Otherwise, just run the test and forget about the random-number generator.


INRM
 
Wouldn't that be kind of redundant?
I mean: If the LHC is stopped/sabotaged by a future event caused by the LHC, which means that said future event wont happen, how can the LHC be stopped/sabotaged by a future event caused by the LHC.........



Yes, I'm a paradox-nerd.......
 
The_Fire said:
Wouldn't that be kind of redundant?
I mean: If the LHC is stopped/sabotaged by a future event caused by the LHC, which means that said future event wont happen, how can the LHC be stopped/sabotaged by a future event caused by the LHC.........



Yes, I'm a paradox-nerd.......
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QFT (Paradox nerd too)
 
INRM said:
Also, why do they need to create some kind of gigantic random number generator in order to predict if things will be safe. If you don't want to run the test over something so ridiculous, just don't run the test. Otherwise, just run the test and forget about the random-number generator.
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I'm not sure how it applies in this particular case, but random number generators are used to generate a large number of hypothetical scenarios. Then these scenarios are used to 'stress test' the equipment. Using the random number generators makes it most likely that all the parameters in a test are fully considered.

I have one word in response to the Higgs Boson time-travel comment.

"Thiotimoline"
 
I'm more worried by the fact that I can never see this device mentioned in print without reading it as "Large Hardon Collider".
 
I feel that a similar phenomena is occurring with myself in World of Warcraft. I cannot seem to break 2000 in 2v2 arena. I feel that the only explanation is that when I do reach real ultimate gladiator ratings in the future, I will become a horrible self absorbed D-bag, destroying RL friendships due to my relentless and public E-peen flexing.

I have gone back in time to defeat myself in arena and keep my ratings below 2k to avert this disaster.

After all, it couldn't be that I am not uber skilled.

Come to think of it, maybe this is also why I can't lose those last 10 pounds...
 
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uruk said:
Or maybe terribly right. The black holes could have once been the stars of invadeing alien civilzations and we used the LHC to destroy thier solar systems in our present to prevent them from attacking in our futur.

Hey maybe there's a ripping good story in that?......Naaaaaaa
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The Timegod, a rewrite of the classic The Fires of Paratime. Highly recommended.
 
INRM said:
How would a Higgs Boson causes a ripple backwards through time? I don't understand how that even would arise.

INRM
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Watch the final episode of Star Trek:TNG. All will be explained.

Steve S.
 
Yes, that is what I need, an overly complicated explination followed by overly simplistic metaphore which makes the solution understandable.
 
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Alice Shortcake said:
I'm more worried by the fact that I can never see this device mentioned in print without reading it as "Large Hardon Collider".
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Thanks. From now on, I won't be able to either. This is just as disappointing as when someone points out a dead pixel on your monitor that you didn't know was there. :)
 
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