Scientists think their experiment may have sabotaged itself from the future

[furrbear]

Seriously. Ridiculously freaking cool.

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.

Or someone's been watching too much Star Trek (though, in that case, the experiment was sabotaging itself from the past, but who's counting?)

Comments

[jameth.livejournal.com]

i love hearing about the large hardon collider

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Back in the late '80s, my ex just called it "Bumpin' Uglies". Now it's "Large Hardon Collider".

[jameth.livejournal.com]

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

The 14-year-old physicist in me chuckles.

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

OMG

where have you been!?

[jameth.livejournal.com]

irl
lol

[barak.livejournal.com]

I saw this theory earlier today... I love it: "Universe saves self from self-destruction by reaching back and stopping causality!"

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

> "...like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather."

No such luck. We were watching from afar and were merely wondering what happened in your "early 21st Century". LHC, eh? Well, we'll know in a little while, now, won't we?

[s2dbaker.livejournal.com]

[bearfinch.livejournal.com]

There's also a theory that the paradoxical results of the double-slit photon experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit_experiment)could be explained by a photon in the future sending back a signal that predicts where the photon from the present will appear. Very odd.