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There was an article by an LHC scientist a while back suggesting that someone is traveling from the future and sabotaging the LHC. The article may have been a

by dcurtis 17y ago

There was an article by an LHC scientist a while back suggesting that someone is traveling from the future and sabotaging the LHC. The article may have been a joke, but...

gojomo 17y ago
From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_... : 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 [Large Hadron] collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful.
- fierarul 17y ago
  I find it surprising that we have discussions about this in the public. To speak about ripples back in time in a non-SCI-FI context is a bit surreal. Although perhaps science is the new boogie-man. It's no longer the gods tearing down something, it's ripples back in time :-)
  - morphir 17y ago
    I don't think that is science from academia, but rather popular science that is trying to be speculative so Discovery will be tempted to make a tv-show about it..
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    - frederickcook 17y ago
      Well, whatever it takes to get kids more interested in science... right? How many folks at SpaceX do you think started their careers as Star Wars junkies?
      - ytinas 17y ago
        They knew Star wars was Scifi. What would the effect be if they joined to be part of something cool to find out it was nonsense?
    - nollidge 17y ago
      I bet the History channel would do it. Half that channel is ghost shows anyways.
- rubidium 17y ago
  If by "a hair", you mean statistically insignificant, sure.
  - ryanwaggoner 17y ago
    Ha. Please share with us the probabilities behind time travel :)
- danparsonson 17y ago
  >With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful I've been searching the list to try and classify this correctly, and I think it's this one: http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#correlation http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#co...
jarin 17y ago
I don't think that it would be someone (or something) traveling back from the future to sabotage the LHC. Rather, it's possible that the LHC, if fully operational, would destroy the universe, and we just happen to live in one of many universes in which hardware failures and birds dropping baguettes have prevented it from doing so.

by dcurtis 17y ago

There was an article by an LHC scientist a while back suggesting that someone is traveling from the future and sabotaging the LHC. The article may have been a joke, but...

gojomo 17y ago

From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_... : 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 [Large Hadron] collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful.

fierarul 17y ago
I find it surprising that we have discussions about this in the public. To speak about ripples back in time in a non-SCI-FI context is a bit surreal. Although perhaps science is the new boogie-man. It's no longer the gods tearing down something, it's ripples back in time :-)
- morphir 17y ago
  I don't think that is science from academia, but rather popular science that is trying to be speculative so Discovery will be tempted to make a tv-show about it..
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  - frederickcook 17y ago
    Well, whatever it takes to get kids more interested in science... right? How many folks at SpaceX do you think started their careers as Star Wars junkies?
    - ytinas 17y ago
      They knew Star wars was Scifi. What would the effect be if they joined to be part of something cool to find out it was nonsense?
  - nollidge 17y ago
    I bet the History channel would do it. Half that channel is ghost shows anyways.
rubidium 17y ago
If by "a hair", you mean statistically insignificant, sure.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Ha. Please share with us the probabilities behind time travel :)
danparsonson 17y ago
>With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful I've been searching the list to try and classify this correctly, and I think it's this one: http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#correlation http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#co...

jarin 17y ago

I don't think that it would be someone (or something) traveling back from the future to sabotage the LHC. Rather, it's possible that the LHC, if fully operational, would destroy the universe, and we just happen to live in one of many universes in which hardware failures and birds dropping baguettes have prevented it from doing so.