"SUICIDE MISSION? The core of the superconducting solenoid magnet at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland."
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
By DENNIS OVERBYE | Published: Oct. 12, 2009
More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world?s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. ...I don't actually put much stock in this. But me no know particles. Well, I do know the difference between boson and fermion, sort of. Still, it is something to be excited about in the halls of physics.
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would 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. [emphasis added]
Oh, I know where I saw a story about someone or some thing from the future coming back and trying to prevent creation of the Higgs particle before it destroys the universe. It was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation where the Enterprise repeatedly blows up until they can find Kelsey Grammer. I think they found him when Data transmitted the number "3" backwards in time. Maybe in that case the Higgs particle was the carrier of interaction. Tell them at CERN!! Something to try!
Posted by The Owl on Oct 17 at 14:42. Filed under: Mathematics and science
