Posted on 10/13/2009 3:53:11 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Its discoveries could be so "abhorrent to nature" that they are coming back to stop their own creation.
Forget the far-fetched belief that it will create a black hole, two distinguished physicists have gone even further claiming nature itself is stopping the troubled £4.4billion project from getting off the ground.
In a theory reminiscent of the time travelling film Back to the Future, the theoretical physicists Holger Nielsen, from Denmark, and Masao Ninomiya, from Japan, have concluded that its discoveries could be so "abhorrent to nature" that they are coming back to stop their own creation.
They have outlined their thoughts in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC.”
The pair's hypothesis centres around the Higgs Boson, a mysterious tiny particle and building block of life that it is hoped the LHC will discover.
They have come up with a theory that it will "ripple backward through time" and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
"It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said.
He said that his theories may even provide a "model for God" who "rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them”.
The world's biggest and most complex experiment to date, the LHC has taken 10,000 researchers more than 15 years to build.
Eventually it is hoped that by firing particles around a 17-mile underground tunnel near Geneva, it can recreate conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
At the same scientists hope to locate a mysterious particle known as the Higgs Boson or God Particle which gives everything its mass
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Nobody knows how it all began so one shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss a theory. Maybe the big bang happened, maybe God did it, maybe the answer is so completely beyond our knowing that it’ll take thousands of generations before humans will be able to grasp the truth. We just don’t know.
If you want to go the God route, that’s cool. If someone else wants to go the big bang route, that should be cool, too.
Some patent office guy said everything that could be invented already had been.
OH good grief. And dragons live off the flat edge of the earth.....
That would actually be a more exciting result, but there would be no need to throw out everything they believe.
The ‘God route’ includes an explanation in writing that fits all the evidence. The ‘bang’ requires imagining up all sorts of non-existant stuff.
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http://www.deism.com/einstein.htm
(The following quotes are taken from The Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press unless otherwise noted)
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”
(The following is from Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer, Princeton University Press)
“I’m not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist.
That’s awful! But I did laugh.
Thank you!
If you’re right, we’ll all know after we leave this existence. I’m in the “I don’t know” category and will remain there until actual verifiable evidence is presented for me to examine and understand.
Quite frankly, I hope you’re right and God does exist, but I wish He’d do some form of direct manifestation that would let each and every person on earth know the truth without a need for any interpretation. Nothing mystical or cryptic (like a burning bush or a Jesus-shaped stain on a wall), just show up and be God and let everyone see that He’s real and then let us know what our religions have gotten right and what they’ve gotten wrong.
When is now Ping.
When is now?
These guys seem to be in favor of an impersonal universe attempting to kill its own grandfather. Potentially good Science Fiction but it reminds me of an earlier speculation about how astronomic observations may actually decrease the potential lifespan of the universe. Sometimes you think that working on the edges of the known causes the loosening of the bounds of rational thought!
Hey, if you guys don’t want the thing any more, give my the scrap metal and I’ll get rid of it for you.
Not my fault, honest.
He’s already done that; its called the Bible.
The poor dude can’t even recognize the simple fact that the primary features of the bang are in 180 degree opposition to God’s word.
Education is a waste for some.
I was under the impression that this machine isn’t even able to approach natural cosmic ray energy. This is a pretty far fetched theory. Then again, it is almost 2012..
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