dshow said:

Holy shit, that's awesome.  Even if it's still unconfirmed, it's an incredibly interesting theory. ]

Again, a theory, say your atheist. It would be to you like believing in the bible.

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or like, you know, the theory of evolution.


IT'S JUST A THEORY 

PreparationH said:

BothHands said:

Rhapsode said:

MAPS said:

hadrons are being collided in a large thing.

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jk.
there's a theory it's being interfered with by particles 'from the future' that are effectively sabotaging it (because it causes a paradox and proceeds to divide by zero) , but i'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to offer a reasonable judgement.

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Holy shit, that's awesome.  Even if it's still unconfirmed, it's an incredibly interesting theory.

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do you have a source for this theory? This is probably what my friend was referring to, to me it sounds dumb as hell.

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He explained that if Nielsen’s predictions were correct then whatever was stopping the LHC would also be stopping high-energy rays hitting the atmosphere. Since scientists can directly detect many such rays, “Nielsen must be wrong”, said Gillies.

He and others also believe that although such ideas have an element of fun, they risk distracting attention from the far more amazing ideas that the LHC will tackle once it gets going.

The Higgs boson, for example, is thought to give all other matter its mass, without which gravity could not work. If the LHC found the Higgs, it would open the door to solving all kinds of other mysteries about the origins and nature of matter. Another line of research aims to detect dark matter, which is thought to comprise about a quarter of the universe’s mass, but made out of a kind of particle that has so far proven impossible to detect.

However, perhaps the weirdest of all Cern’s aspirations for the LHC is to investigate extra dimensions of space. This idea, known as string theory, suggests there are many more dimensions to space than the four we can perceive.

At present these other dimensions are hidden, but smashing protons together in the LHC could produce gravitational anomalies, effectively tiny black holes, that would reveal their existence.

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History shows, however, it is unwise to dismiss too quickly ideas that are initially seen as science fiction. Peter Smith, a science historian and author of Doomsday Men, which looks at the links between science and popular culture, points out that what started as science fiction has often become the inspiration for big discoveries.

“Even the original idea of the ‘atomic bomb’ actually came not from scientists but from H G Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free,” he said.

Some of Cern’s leading researchers also take Nielsen at least a little seriously. Brian Cox, professor of particle physics at Manchester University, said: “His ideas are theoretically valid. What he is doing is playing around at the edge of our knowledge, which is a good thing.

"He is pointing out that we don’t yet have a quantum theory of gravity, so we haven’t yet proved rigorously that sending information into the past isn’t possible."

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