Posted on 03/15/2011 4:20:55 PM PDT by decimon
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 of causing matter to travel backwards in time.
“Our theory is a long shot,” admitted Weiler, who is a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, “but it doesn’t violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints.”
One of the major goals of the collider is to find the elusive Higgs boson: the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons, neutrons and electrons have mass. If the collider succeeds in producing the Higgs boson, some scientists predict that it will create a second particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time.
According to Weiler and Ho’s theory, these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past.
“One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes,” Weiler said. “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.”
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Before you start ping.
Can they set it for about two weeks ago?
If this is true...can we go back and tell Sonewall to stay out of the woods...were going to need him in PA
I traveled in time, just a couple of days ago.
Saturday night I went to bed, and Sunday when I woke up, I had to reset the clocks because I lost an hour of time. Apparently, this happens twice a year. I guess the machine is only powerful enough to go an hour either way.
Send A message back to around 1787. Tell George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
“Urgent”
Add to Constitution:
If a man called Obama ever comes along. He cannot be President.
Long, long time ago, there was this big explosion.
Gravity pulled these remnants of the explosion into
a ball. Over time had these acids pooled
on the ball. Lightning struck the pool of acid.
Life was created. A single cell amoeba became man.
Man makes a collider splits subatomic particles into
Higg singlets which jump forward into time before
the big explosion and stops it. So all this never
happened, so I never wrote this.
Is there any chance we can tell the bosons to tell the morons not to vote for Obama?
Unfortunately the name always makes me think of gay jousting.
I’m curious: What’s the speculation about the Fifth Dimension?
Here are the dimensions, as I understand them
1) Width (right to left)
2) Height (top to bottom)
3) Depth (forwards to back)
4) Time (yesterday to tomorrow)
What happens after that?
I’m ignorant. But I have a pet theory: Energy v. Mass, The Big Bang, or “In the Beginning, G-d created”
It's McCoo coo. Other than that, I know nothing.
IM with you. I had money in the bank back then.
How is that bad boy doing?
I know they had an early problem and saw the repair on “World’s Toughest Fixes”.
Looks like an impressive piece of engrg & construction.
Haven’t heard much lately.
If travel to the past is possible, then a fixed future from which to travel is necessary.
They’d shut that thing down in a heartbeat if they realized they were proving predestination.
if we will be able to go back in time then why didn’t anyone from the future build one so that they could say Hi to us?
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