The Particle God Doesn't want
October 20, 2009 1:47 PM Subscribe
Is the LHC sabotaging itself from the future?
Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics think so. The Higgs boson coming back in time to prevent its own creation could certainly explain all the delays associated with the LHC project.
Of course, LHC is not the only major scientific endeavor to experience serious setbacks. A skeptic chimes in.
Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics think so. The Higgs boson coming back in time to prevent its own creation could certainly explain all the delays associated with the LHC project.
Of course, LHC is not the only major scientific endeavor to experience serious setbacks. A skeptic chimes in.
This post was deleted for the following reason: The Large Hadron Collider is used to being SCIENCED ALL ITS LIFE -- cortex
Or is it sabotaged by always dating dangerous but unstable men?
posted by GuyZero at 1:49 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by GuyZero at 1:49 PM on October 20, 2009
Seems to be sabotaged from the past. But the jury is still out on which direction time actually flows in.
posted by shownomercy at 1:49 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by shownomercy at 1:49 PM on October 20, 2009
This was a better post than the first one, though, so take heart.
posted by killdevil at 1:50 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by killdevil at 1:50 PM on October 20, 2009
This post is sabotaging the past one.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:53 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:53 PM on October 20, 2009
killdevil: "This was a better post than the first one, though, so take heart."
That would represent progress. Unless time is flowing backwards - in which case things would be getting worse.
posted by Joe Beese at 1:54 PM on October 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
That would represent progress. Unless time is flowing backwards - in which case things would be getting worse.
posted by Joe Beese at 1:54 PM on October 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
i agree, truely the previous post is the double.
posted by samsara at 1:54 PM on October 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by samsara at 1:54 PM on October 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
I'm surprised this post hasn't gone back in time and killed the first yet.
posted by Keith Talent at 1:56 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by Keith Talent at 1:56 PM on October 20, 2009
I'm into it.
posted by Liquidwolf at 1:59 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by Liquidwolf at 1:59 PM on October 20, 2009
I like how they didn't bother saying which "serious scientists" are challenging the Copernican and relativistic views and putting forth the theory that Earth travels through time but not through space. It really shores up their credibility.
posted by atbash at 2:07 PM on October 20, 2009
posted by atbash at 2:07 PM on October 20, 2009
According to Nielsen, it means that the creation of the boson at some point in the future would then ripple backwards through time to put a stop to whatever it was that had created it in the first place. [emphasis mine]
Umm, isn't the theory behind the Higgs Boson that this particle gives other particles mass?
So, wouldn't it stand to reason that there are already 687 hojillion Higgs Bosons floating around the world right now? And we're not creating particles, but observing them in a controlled fashion?
But that's just crazy talk. Clearly the machine is alive and hates us.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 2:08 PM on October 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
Umm, isn't the theory behind the Higgs Boson that this particle gives other particles mass?
So, wouldn't it stand to reason that there are already 687 hojillion Higgs Bosons floating around the world right now? And we're not creating particles, but observing them in a controlled fashion?
But that's just crazy talk. Clearly the machine is alive and hates us.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 2:08 PM on October 20, 2009 [1 favorite]
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