Scientists think their experiment may have sabotaged itself from the future

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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?)

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