Subscribe by EmailAre the Swiss about to invent the first time machine?
February 10, 2008 by Mark O'Neill |
By Mark O’Neill
If Mr Spock or Michael J Fox turn up on your doorstep in the next few weeks looking lost, then this is why. The Swiss research facility, CERN, is close to starting up the “Large Hadron Collider” (LHC) - the most powerful atom-smasher ever built.
It’s supposed to be able to recreate the conditions surrounding the Big Bang of Creation and provide more insight on particles in space. But two Russian scientists are convinced that the machine could become the world’s first time machine.
According to their theory, if time travel is possible then it is only possible to go back as far as the year when the first time machine was created. That means 2008 folks if this LHC machine gets up and running! Just think, we could ask the first time travellers how President Obama’s re-election campaign of 2012 is getting on!
Normally I would dismiss this as a load of sensationalist crap but the Daily Telegraph is quite a respectable British newspaper. They are normally quite responsible with their reporting so I give them more credibility than say a trashy tabloid with topless models such as the Sun.
I guess we’d better soon start practicing our Vulcan “Live Long and Prosper” signs!
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I’m sure these Russian scientists know more about the underlying science than I do (A- in Physics class notwithstanding), and I suppose we’ll just have to see if they’re right, although I’m highly skeptical about it.
In the immortal words of Yoda, “Always in motion is the future.”
If they succeed, the world will change for sure. Something like that will pose an enormous treat to society. Just think about the possibilities. That will never be “free for all” kind of thing.
I am normally not correcting every small error I read on the net, but it bothers me that you call CERN a Swiss research facility on a regular basis. Although part of the CERN facilities are on Swiss soil, the majority of the facilities are in France and it’s in fact an European research facility (CERN has 20 member states). For more information check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN or http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html!
I see two statements crossing each other. If the machine cannot go beyond the time when it was first created then how will it recreate the Big Bang.
The Big Bang is something separate and unconnected. The machine’s official purpose is to recreate the Big Bang and study space molecules. But a side-purpose (and supposedly un-intentional purpose) of the machine is apparently the beginnings of time travel.
Don’t ask me to explain it because I don’t understand all the ins and outs of it. I sucked at physics at school!!
Must be something to do with the speed of particle movement. I guess, exciting stuff though all the same.
But must be taken with a pinch of salt!
Lets hope they dont create some kind of black hole.
Very interesting, but will time travel not bring about so many unthinkable paradox’s ?