Large Hadron Collider sabotage from the "future"

**Csargo** · 10-29-2009, 20:42

I'm not sure if I should laugh or be amazed

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 10-29-2009, 20:44

This must be what they're going to use an excuse the next time it breaks

**Tratorix** · 10-29-2009, 20:46

Well, that's a brilliant way of slacking off.

"No, you see, we made it, but it's creation caused a ripple in time that caused it to, um, not exist." *goes back to playing solitaire*

**Banquo's Ghost** · 10-29-2009, 21:25

You know, that's the kind of information you need before you spend €5bn building the thing.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 10-29-2009, 22:29

Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

You know, that's the kind of information you need before you spend €5bn building the thing.

Rubbish!

I think CERN just got worth it! It keeps getting better and better. The 'End of the World' scare from last year. When it was said that the whole earth would be engulfed by a black hole emerging from CERN.
Then later it turned out that CERN was masterminded by Al-Qaida, which hoped to use it as a superweapon to destroy civilization with. (Move over Death Star!)
Now it turns out to be a time machine build by the future.

Genius, genius! It is all so genius! We are soooo getting our money's worth!

Besides, this theory is the most sensible to come out of theorethical physics since 1905.

(But I do have this nagging feeling in the back of my head that this whole five billion euro project was a prank by a few geeks. Lord knows they're laughing at us all right now on their hyper secret, private internet.

'Really, trust us! This will advance European physics...no! we need it to be 25 kilometers wide, really...surely you pencil pushers are not so small of mind you can't envisage the necessity of this particle experiment?....what if the Americans beat us to it....etc')