Posted on 11/11/2009 11:24:13 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit? "A bit of baguette," says Mike Lamont of the control center of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which built and maintains the LHC. Apparently, a passing bird may have dropped the chunk of bread on an electrical substation above the accelerator, causing a power cut. The baguette was removed, power to the cryogenic system was restored and within a few days the magnets returned to their supercool temperatures.
While most scientists would write off the event as a freak accident, two esteemed physicists have formulated a theory that suggests an alternative explanation: perhaps a time-traveling bird was sent from the future to sabotage the experiment. Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have published several papers over the past year arguing that the CERN experiment may be the latest in a series of physics research projects whose purposes are so unacceptable to the universe that they are doomed to fail, subverted by the future.
The LHC, a 17-mile underground ring designed to smash atoms together at high energies, was created in part to find proof of a hypothetical subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. According to current theory, the Higgs is responsible for imparting mass to all things in the universe. But ever since the British physicist Peter Higgs first postulated the existence of the particle in 1964, attempts to capture the particle have failed, and often for unexpected, seemingly inexplicable reasons.
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Paging George Noory
Bush’s fault
Would you believe it was a time-traveller if I told you it was a dodo?
Right....more lke a pigeon nesting in the inner roof dropping turd bombs on it.
That was my guess too. Obviously brilliant minds think alike........
That was my guess too. Obviously brilliant minds think alike........
Bubba: "Hadron? Nevermind..."
IF IT WAS SENT FROM THE FUTURE TO SABOTAGE IT, THEN HOW WOULD THEY KNOW IF THEY SUCCEEDED?.............
The question is: How do we exploit this weird effect to give spaceships Faster Than Light Drive?
I say we dub it the “Causality Drive”
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a bird, it could have been a time-traveling janitor who left his sandwich on the thing.....
Step 1. Sabatage Large Hadron Collider.
Step 2. Invent time machine.
Step 3. Send this message into the past.
We just need to keep Gordon Freeman away from the LHAC....
This is not as insane an idea as it might first appear.
Let us hypothetically assume that it was an UNknown scientific fact in the early 1940s that atomic fission would in fact rip the fabric of space and time, destroying not only the existing (and only) version of Earth, but all that “would have been” (meaning future generations).
It would be reckless and irresponsible for our descendents NOT to try and find a way to sabotage our early atomic research (presuming they had a method to ‘reach back’ to our time period).
The naysayers and tongue-cluckers will all start yabbering away about Art Bell, George Noory, whatever but the fact is, what we now accept as normal science FACT today, was as little as 40 to 50 years ago considered the stuff of utter fantasy and unworthy of serious consideration.
Looks like those ne’er-do-wells from Tralfamadore are at it again.
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