Sci/Tech Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

[The Helper]

If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time.

"Our theory is a long shot," admitted Weiler, who is a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, "but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints."

One of the major goals of the collider is to find the elusive Higgs boson: the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons, neutrons and electrons have mass. If the collider succeeds in producing the Higgs boson, some scientists predict that it will create a second particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time.

According to Weiler and Ho's theory, these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past.

Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time.

phys.org

 

[Varine]

I want a picture of a tachyon or this whole thing is a big shenanigan.

 

[Bronxernijn]

I'll have two

 

[FireCat]

could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time.

Holy shit that's simple hilarious.

 

[Dan]

lol

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

Holy shit that's simple hilarious.

???
whats so funny? its pretty cool

 

[sqrage]

???
whats so funny? its pretty cool

everything's funny to firecat except things in the humor section.

i think it's pretty cool though, but doesn't time not even exist?

 

[Blackveiled]

Wouldn't that be like deprogression of matter? Lol.

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

but doesn't time not even exist?

??? elaborate?

 

[Varine]

No, it would be something that didn't happen.

 

[Blackveiled]

??? elaborate?

What's there to elaborate? The time on your clock isn't a physical existence. It's a creation of Mankind. So how could you go backwards through something you created?

 

[Varine]

Clocks don't measure time. They measure themselves. Look up entropy.

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

keeping track of time is a human creation, not time itself.

Its the 4th dimension; Duration, consisting of time and anti-time (the same as left/right, up/down, far/near). All it is is moving the opposite direction through the 4th dimension rather than moving one way through it.

 

[Varine]

That's according to untested and unproven theories mostly existing so as to allow some mathematical models to seem possible.

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

Do you have any proven and tested theories proving the opposite? if not then all we can do is argue blindly because we wouldnt know

 

[Varine]

No, I'm using thermodynamics.

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

"Thermodynamics is the science of energy conversion involving heat and other forms of energy, most notably mechanical work."

.........? elaborate on relevance?

 

[sqrage]

keeping track of time is a human creation, not time itself.

Its the 4th dimension; Duration, consisting of time and anti-time (the same as left/right, up/down, far/near). All it is is moving the opposite direction through the 4th dimension rather than moving one way through it.

You use time to define time. And then use the definition of time (time) as an example of time. :nuts:

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

Now im confused D:

 

[sqrage]

>>Its the 4th dimension; Duration, consisting of time and anti-time

What exactly are those, beyond the human perception of things changing?