Been popping quaaludes all morning and I still can’t get my mind around space and time, but I think it goes something like this:
So remember the Hadron Collider, which, some scientists speculate, might through normal use accidentally tear a hole in the universe through which all life as we know it would pass and be compressed to the size of a dust mite? It keeps breaking down. Matter of fact, development of a superconducting supercollider has been going on, in various forms, for several decades, yet the God particle eludes us.
I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson [The God Particle], 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.
According to what we know about gravity and, uh, other weighty subjects, its not out of the question that matter is transferable through time, as long as you’re going backwards. And to the extent that “time travel,” as it were, would create a paradox that would totally fuck everything up (think Marty McFly’s siblings as they’re airbrushed out of that photograph), that might only be true if you disrupt events whose conclusions are foregone:
While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one.
Later for the date than the Hadron Collider
So remember the Hadron Collider, which, some scientists speculate, might through normal use accidentally tear a hole in the universe through which all life as we know it would pass and be compressed to the size of a dust mite? It keeps breaking down. Matter of fact, development of a superconducting supercollider has been going on, in various forms, for several decades, yet the God particle eludes us.
So why don’t they just fix the damn thing?
Two scientists think the universe might be trying to tell us something:
According to what we know about gravity and, uh, other weighty subjects, its not out of the question that matter is transferable through time, as long as you’re going backwards. And to the extent that “time travel,” as it were, would create a paradox that would totally fuck everything up (think Marty McFly’s siblings as they’re airbrushed out of that photograph), that might only be true if you disrupt events whose conclusions are foregone:
[New York Times, Telegraph]