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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: atomic7732 on February 04, 2010, 04:08:34 PM

Title: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: atomic7732 on February 04, 2010, 04:08:34 PM

Is the Higgs boson sabotaging the LHC? From the future?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/is-a-time-travelling-higgs-sab.html

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: Chaotic Cow on February 05, 2010, 01:23:41 PM

Interesting. I think it is cool that something like this might be possible. Something from the future is trying to prevent this.

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: FGFG on February 05, 2010, 04:18:35 PM

I don't believe in time travel, and even if it is possible I think it's impossible to change the past as it already happened: if someone in the present goes to the past, then it means that in the past that person already arrived, did what he had to do, and gone back to the present (or remained there)...

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: atomic7732 on February 05, 2010, 05:42:41 PM

FGFG, that's what I think, If somone grew up, went back in time, then came back, they would have experienced a "glitched" timeline, so they would have done it before they went back in time...

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: Chaotic Cow on February 05, 2010, 05:49:40 PM

Exactly. The theory of going back and time but in a different dimension is more reasonable.

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: SuperNova on February 06, 2010, 02:25:00 AM

the LHC isn't gonna explode, they thought that in 2008 the LHC would create ablack hole that would destroy the earth, didn't happend...

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: FGFG on February 06, 2010, 03:43:20 AM

Quote from: Chaotic Cow on February 05, 2010, 05:49:40 PM

Exactly. The theory of going back and time but in a different dimension is more reasonable.

That means infinite possible dimension. These persons who hypothetically was destroyed by the LHC's black holes, should go back to the past of an infinite number of universes, to change the future of other people, not their one.

Quote from: SuperNova on February 06, 2010, 02:25:00 AM

the LHC isn't gonna explode, they thought that in 2008 the LHC would create ablack hole that would destroy the earth, didn't happend...

Actually the LHC never reached the energy level required to create black holes because it broke down before.
Now it restarted making experiments but the energy level is lower and it's increased step by step.

However events like the ones that will be created in the LHC, happen every day in the upper atmosphere and we are still here... There no reason to worry about them.

Title: Re: Higgs boson found in future?
Post by: Bla on February 06, 2010, 06:17:09 AM

Tiny black holes evaporate rapidly because of Hawking radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation) anyways. A black hole would require the mass of the Moon to sustain itself.
They were just rumors.