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Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the summon-michael-j-fox dept.

MistrX writes "If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time."

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  1. Testable! by proverbialcow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, when it did already cause matter to have appeared?

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  2. No paradoxes? by mangu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FTFA:

    "Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example. However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."

    Send a message to a hitman saying "kill X and I will send you the results of any race horse of your choice". How's that for not being able to go back and kill your grandfather?

  3. Am I the only one by Xacid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only one who gets absolutely frustrated that people are still proposing the possibility of time-travel?

    This is why I can't party with my theoretical physicist friends anymore.

    1. Re:Am I the only one by Dr.+Manhattan · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Am I the only one who gets absolutely frustrated that people are still proposing the possibility of time-travel?

      I know. Those people who proposed we'd be able to harness the force of lightning, or build an atomic bomb, were annoying too.

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