Hadron Collider: The Future Works Against It
by Irma Arkus
Large Hadron Collider, the multi-billion dollar machine that just won’t start up, has been plagued by numerous problems since the moment of announcement that “she’s ready to go captain.”
Last year, we’ve patiently awaited its start, and since then, the damn thing was breaking and facing numerous technical issues.
But a pair of physicists, Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, say that this may not be an accident, but rather that the Higgs boson particle is so dangerous, that the time itself is rippling, trying to stop the collider from starting in a roundabout time-travelling sort of way.
In fact, they’ve written two papers on the subject: “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” available on arXiv.org.
According to the NYTimes musings: “It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”
In other words, the physicists say that god, or rather some angry deity, is putting halt to the CERN collider because it hates the idea of Higgins Boson particle, thus engaging in time travel to halt it from being found.
As farfetched as this may sound, they say that this may explain why US abandoned its plans in 1993 for a similar collider after already investing billions of dollars.
My question though is, if something doesn’t want us to turn the damn thing on, why not stop the project at its inception? Why wait until its built?[NYTimes]
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What the hell? Yeah, right.
What the hell?
Yeah, right.
Thu, 10/29/2009 - 15:47 Posted by Anonymous (not verified)
re: What the hell? Yeah, right.
pretty much that but multiply it by a thousand.
Thu, 10/29/2009 - 18:20 Posted by irma
re: What the hell? Yeah, right.
CERN was a just hole in the ground and known as “the hacker’s advanced driving school” in my day, but it is linked to many a high profile university in today’s gov’t grant projects. I’m guessing this oddball story is a side effect of “publish or perish” pressure amongst research scholars. Their reputation (promotion, pay grade) depends on specialist publications that break new grounds in their field. To me, it seems plausible that once those fall through, some of those involved could resort to abusing the more general media available to create some buzz and excitement with a few “less than officially published” mad excursions there.
Sure, HB’s particle is a big step towards the unifying theory, but the God Particle is an American misnomer met with some scoff in academic European circles. Europe tends to take Einstein on his works, not his public quotes, although we share the same verbal expression for cerebral diligence.
But Europe doesn’t have a bible belt, it’s too scattered, so religious sways don’t carry much political muscle in generic media.
Reading back my own post in my pre-post edit that’s a kinda bold statement, a bit too “out there”, but if US university grants are based on public opinion, instead of its scientific progress, I can see this work for US university posts granting out to prestigious expensive CERN projects.
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Wed, 11/04/2009 - 00:17 Posted by deebee
re: What the hell? Yeah, right.
The papers in question were not published per say. I would bet that this particular tidbit represents not only a slow news day, but an even slower day in academic circles.
The “god particle,” as a title for a particle, is really a product of overactive imagination and an attempt to rattle the religious institutions as well as intrigue layman who otherwise would not give a second thought to latest in quantum physics.
But what work do you exactly refer to? I am just having a tough time analysing your comment.
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 00:04 Posted by irma
Cern Zoo
The CERN ZOO fiction anthology book (june 2009) is implicated heavily with this story.
Sun, 11/08/2009 - 00:43 Posted by DF Lewis (not verified)
re: Cern Zoo
Had no idea about the CERN ZOO, but thanks to your tip we have something really yummy to look forward to!
Sun, 11/08/2009 - 13:42 Posted by irma
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