“The encounter could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that’s a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.” -Doc Brown
The Large Hadron Collider is a big atom smasher that is looking for dark matter-the stuff hanging out in the background of the time/space continuum that no one really understands or is even sure exists. They are also looking for other odds and ends-like the Higgs boson.
Just as some people feared the atom bomb would set the earth’s atmosphere on fire, a few people are concerned that the LHC will create a new Big Bang and put an end to the Universe as we know it.
So far that hasn’t happened-but then, The LHC isn’t up to full speed yet.
On November 3rd something odd happened at The Large Hadron Collider-it started to overheat due to a bit of bread gumming up the works. Yes, the gazillion dollar science project was in danger of melting down, or blowing up, or whatever an LHC would do when it overheats, due to a bit of baguette dropped into the machine by a passing bird.
But what if this was no ordinary bird, but a bird sent back from the future to intentionally sabotage the experiment? Seriously.
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.
Seems it’s all the fault of the Higgs boson, one of those near mythical item that Physicists spend a lot of time looking for and talking about. The search for the Higgs boson, which is believed to be the glue that holds everything in the Universe together, has met with mysterious problems over the years. This might be a good reason to keep it out of the hands of current era humans-taking apart the Universe and not being able to put it back together again could cause problems.
The serious Physists think the LHC will discover the Higgs boson when it is eventually running at full strength. So if you see the universe fraying at the edges, don’t worry, it’s just the scientists at the Large Hadron Collider getting in a good day’s work.
Read more at Time.com.
