Sci/Tech Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future?

[13lade619]

Nov 5, 2009

The LHC has been so plagued by problems and shutdowns that some physicists have wondered if it's being sabotaged by its own future. And the LHC has fallen victim to another bizarre shutdown involving a bird and a baguette.

CERN is reporting that the Large Hadron Collider has been shutdown yet again after a piece of bread fell into the outdoor machinery. That part of the LHC's circuit normally operates at 1.9 Kelvin, but, thanks to the bread bomb, rose to 8 Kelvin, nearly causing the LHC's niobium-titanium magnets to cease superconducting. The incident could have crippled the LHC yet again — and caused significant physical damage to the lab had the LHC been fully operational at the time — but CERN claims that it won't delay the full reactivation of the device, scheduled for later this month.

http://io9.com/5398043/bird+related-accident-suggests-the-large-hadron-collider-really-is-doomed

Oct 13, 2009

What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson.

The quest to observe the Higgs boson has certainly been plagued by its share of troubles, from the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider in 1993 to the Large Hadron Collider's streak of technical troubles. In fact, the projects have suffered such bad luck that Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto wonder if it isn't bad luck at all, but future influences rippling back to sabotage them. In papers like "Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal" and "Search for Future Influence From LHC," they put forth the notion that observing the Higgs boson would be such an abhorrent event that the future is actually trying to prevent it from happening.

http://io9.com/5380647/is-the-large-hadron-collider-being-sabotaged-from-the-future

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very *interesting* insights.. .

 

[T.s.e]

Take the hint people, shut it down and use the remaining money to feed the poor

 

[Cornface]

It would be hillarious if the earth was destroyed thanks to a piece of bread.

 

[black.sheep]

Obviously its being caused by a time traveling robot to stop the LHC from taking over the world with its robot army.

 

[tom_mai78101]

I wondered if there's a news article talking about all superstitions around the LHC...

 

[Avaleirra]

This makes me think about terminator.

 

[13lade619]

well.. bump?..

 

[tom_mai78101]

Don't bump news threads. It's not...nice? I don't know.

 

[The Helper]

For Great Justice! (sorry Tom)