Thread: Could the Large Hadron Collider be held back by its own future? Free Dating, Singles and Personals

Ever see "Prince of Darkness?" Same concept. Future interacting with the past in an attempt to stave off an invasion by...of all things...the Devil. Good movie, though. Creepy!

Interesting concept all the same.

I read their first paper a couple weeks ago, and it was rubbish. Really hard to believe it was written by two distinguished physicists. It almost comes off as a joke. It's a really entertaining concept, and I was hilariously excited to hear about it, but I also knew I had to read up on it after all of the news reports were going crazy over it. It's garbage.

It will make a good movie though.

I heard yesterday that the cooling system failed owing to a piece of bread dropped in by bird...I wonder if the bird came from the future...Did he get the bread here, or bring it back with him?

firstly, yeah these guys are morons. however, there claims are not that far fetched. the LHC is based on trying to find a number of particles such as (ideally) a gravitron and the higgs boson. the gravitron is the 'element of gravity'. its a concept theory springing from string theory. some string theorists claim that the strings that make up the universe could stretch to become branes, which could encompass the size of a universe....

I doubt that's what is going on. Probably got their wires wrong in all those miles of cable. But, it is entirely conceivable that the discovery of the Higgs boson or some other discovery of the LHC, might eventually lead to a time-line that results in a paradox. It has been suggested many times that if a time paradox happens, then the universe will somehow have to make itself consistent. Stopping some relevant event that causes the time...

LHC "bird-bread" strike From CERN, Nov. 6, 2009 On Tuesday, Nov. 3, a bird carrying a baguette bread caused a short circuit in an electrical outdoor installation that serves sectors 7-8 and 8-1 of the LHC. The knock-on effects included an interruption to the operation of the LHC cryogenics system. The bird escaped unharmed but lost its bread. Funny, but not too unusual for a facility this size. At Fermilab we've had similar...

Sounds like they were hitting the bong a little too hard. It reminds me of the X files episode where a physicist from the future goes back in time to kill himself and other researchers whose research eventually leads to ubiquitious time travel with horrible results. Who knows, the Universe is a strange place. Maybe someone from the future IS trying to tell us something.