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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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We already have one ...
We sense three dimensions. We move through a fourth. But various proven phenomena can be explained (so far) through the existence of a fifth dimension.
For example, electrons “move” from one “side” of an atom to another side without passing through the center.
Light moves in a wave, with no three-dimensional construct to explain its constantly shifting direction.
If you fire an electron past a positively charged plate, it doesn’t travel to the left of it, or to the right of it. It travels on both sides of it. Yet there’s still only one electron.
The easiest fifth-dimension construct to witness is gravity. Gravity doesn’t cause objects to travel “out of the way” of the straightest path between two points. Space-time itself is curved, so that if we could “see” the fifth dimension, we would “see” that the curved path an object takes is actually the shortest path. For instance, because the Earth is curved, the shortest distance from Chicago to Europe passes through Iceland, but on a flat map, that seems to be a curved route.
Hey, don’t laugh. The Holy Grail (Sancta Caliz) has been sitting in a Basilica in Valencia this whole time. And yes, “Grael” means “Chalice” in the dialect of the French people who’d been taking care of it.
Is that the Chalice from the Palace or the Flagon with the Dragon?
“Curved Space”. Okay. That’s an explanation I’ve heard and can relate to. Great examples. Thanks!
Well, it’s shape curves space. But it’s actually, “probability.”
What distinguishes two points in the fifth dimension is whether an event occurred in a given “timeline”: If the positions in the first four dimensions are identical (same time, and same point in three-dimensional space), then what separates two positions in the fifth dimension are “alternate realities.”
According to Schroedinger’s “Cat” illustration:
In this thought experiment: A negatively charged plate repels an electron from traveling straight. Based on quantum chance, the electron MUST swerve away from the plate to the left or to the right. As I mentioned before, one electron actually will take BOTH paths. But suppose you place a receptor on the far side of the plate along each of the two paths. You then rig a device which will kill a concealed cat if the electron strikes ONE receptor, but not if it strikes the other.
You’ve created a quantum option.
In one reality, the cat lives. In another reality, the cat dies. The difference between these two realities is akin to the difference between two parallel, flat surfaces in three dimensional space.
I should note: that two “parallel realities” could exist presumes that fifth-dimensional space has a demonstrable volume. Just as a black hole presses two divergent planes in three dimensions together (”curving space”), a sixth-dimensional (???) structure could press divergent realities together.
HooBoy, I stand corrected.
I suspected that it was Bushie 1 who did the deed. I knew it was a messed up project. But I did think it was farther along than that, with more promise than we were told.
Politics usually effs up all good ideas like that.
Thanks for the info!
So, we have some really deep gopher holes in Texas? Bet some drug lords have pot plants growing in them now.
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