This is funny. From a story on the (apparently not-totally-crazy) theory that trying to create a Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider somehow results in the future particle preventing the collider from operating now, explaining all the trouble they've been having with it:
Dr. Nielsen admits that he and Dr. Ninomiya’s new theory smacks of time travel, a longtime interest, which has become a respectable research subject in recent years. 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.
Time travel should work on the cosmological macroscale, at least according to Kurt Godel's contribution to Relativity theory. Nothing we could use in any practical way but still a possible phenomena.
If Godel was right, why not time travel on the extreme nanoscale of subatomic particles too?
Posted by: zenpundit | October 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM