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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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    1. Re:Testable! by Speare · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      It wioll haven be appearing again tomorrow, since the test performed yesterday is retroactively rescheduled for next week. Consult http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Dan_Streetmentioner for more grammar tips.

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    2. Re:Testable! by Bozzio · · Score: 4, Funny

      /. can't let you edit/delete your post, no matter when!

      FTFY.

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    3. Re:Testable! by fractoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      Future You liked the post you will have did shall post better than the one you were going to intending posted was in the yesterday future.

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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?

    1. Re:No paradoxes? by mangu · · Score: 4, Funny

      I bet he would be far more interested to know about the results of the horse race than the results of the race horse.

      It's already happening! I could swear I typed the word 'horse' before I typed 'race'...

    2. Re:No paradoxes? by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's all we need. Fucking Anonymous forkbombing the universe.

      What could possibly go wrong?

  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.

  4. 88mph? by gravos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it really so difficult to get the atoms up to 88 miles per hour?

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