Cern's Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider as a time machine? According to a physics professor and his assistant, the world’s largest atom smasher could indeed allow people to travel back in time.

Theoretical? To be sure. But they say it’s theoretically possible.

“Our theory is a long shot, but it doesn’t violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints,” said Vanderbilt University physicist, Tom Weiler, in a statement.

Weiler and Vanderbilt graduate fellow Chui Man Ho, outline their theory in a paper on a site operated by Cornell.

The atom smasher, which began operations last year, was built, in part, to help scientists in their search for the elusive Higgs boson, part of an invisible force field believed to give mass to particles in the cosmos. Nobody has ever actually observed the Higgs boson in an experiment to confirm the theory that was put forward by physicists Peter Higgs, Robert Brout and Francois Englert.

Weiler and Ho suggest that if the LHC can reproduce a Higgs boson, it will also be able to produce a related particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time. This is the crucial ingredient as they theorize that these singlets would serve as jumping off points with the ability to move into other dimensions, moving across time.

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This short film is about a piece of footage I (George Clarke) found behind the scenes in Charlie Chaplins film ‘The Circus’. Attending the premiere at Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA – the scene shows a large woman dressed in black with a hat hiding most of her face, with what can only be described as a mobile phone device – talking as she walks alone.

I have studied this film for over a year now – showing it to over 100 people and at a film festival, yet no-one can give any explanation as to what she is doing.

My only theory – as well as many others – is simple… a time traveler on a mobile phone. See for yourself and feel free to leave a comment on your own explanation or thoughts about it.

George – 20th October 2010

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Hadron Collider

Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.

In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim nature is trying to prevent the LHC from finding the elusive Higgs boson. Called the “God particle,” the theoretical boson could explain the origins of mass in the universe — if physicists can find the darn thing.
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What is it? Where is it? When is it? (Shareware)

Until his relativistic views emerged as the new physics of the 20th century and beyond, scientists, thinkers and science fiction writers let the human imagination run wild with the most elusive phenomena in the universe – time. But what is it? Where is it? When is it?

The space-time continuum described by Einstein is four dimensional.
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In Search of Time

I just started this book so hopefully this will hold you over until I post my review.

The passage of time is one of the things with which we are instinctively, unthinkingly comfortable; and yet when pressed to describe what time actually is, we are as flummoxed now as we ever were.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said you could never step in the same river twice – and was promptly corrected by some smartypants who pointed out that you can never step in the same river once. David Bowie put it more straightforwardly. ‘Time may change me,’ he sang, ‘but I can’t trace time.’

We think of time as travelling (already a spatial metaphor): but travelling relative to what?
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Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory) discusses the possibility of time travel.

Spacetime wormhole

The ability to travel back in time, though entirely hypothetical, isn’t explicitly forbidden by our current understanding of space and time, embodied in the general theory of relativity. Time travel tends to play havoc with other laws of physics, however, and in the 29 May Physical Review Letters researchers report another example. They show that data encryption systems relying on quantum principles can be broken by allowing the data stream to interact with a quantum state that travels back in time. This scenario doesn’t present an immediate threat to information security, the authors assert. Rather, it’s an example of the kind of contradiction that any unified theory of quantum mechanics and gravity will have to resolve.
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Alright, I wasn’t even through my first gulp of my scorpian bowl (a big bowl of booze at a Chinese restaurant for you unsophisticated drinkers) the other night when my ears perked up to a conversation in the booth behind me. A woman was telling her friends about the recent discovery of another beached Montauk monster. And from the sound of her voice she was really excited and going into detail about the incident to her buddies. Now obviously I don’t know if she knew about the previous case which that space-pig-alien-looking thing turned out to be your average raccoon. But, it got me thinking about the big story that every once an a while I would stumble upon, the story of the Montauk Project. This is a story so grandiose, I think on some levels it actually makes Roswell, Area 51, and alleged underground base at Dulce look more like Little Red Riding Hood. I mean I’m telling ya, you throw in the smoke monster, sprinkle in a little Benjamin Linus and Dharma Initiative  and you got yourself one hell of a final season of Lost.

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