Doomsday in reverse?

[tk2kewl]

Is the future trying to save us from ourselves? A series of scientific papers that have been kicking around for a couple of years suggest that if the Large Hadron Collider ever were to find something that shattered the cosmos, the future universe might protect itself by sending a backward-causality wave to break the LHC, or at least warn us.

Sure enough, the LHC is broken - leading The New York Times' Dennis Overbye to wonder half-jokingly whether there was something to the claim after all.

Does that sound spooky? What if I told you that the idea of going back in time to derail out a world-ending particle collider goes back even farther, to a novel written about the fate of the long-canceled Superconducting Super Collider? And that the author of that book is a physicist who has been conducting research into ... backward causality?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/16/2101272.aspx">More...

[Vincardog]

1. IF we fired up a "world-ending particle collider" Who would be there to stop us in the future?

[SIMPLYB1980]

4. Sam Beckett?

Edited to add.

http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/galleries/scifi/scifi-best-dramas.php?ssid=8

"In this entertaining series, scientist Sam Beckett was a man lost in time. In each episode he found himself trapped in another person's body in a specific period of time in the past. In an unusually downbeat series finale, Sam eventually discovered that there was simply no way home. Bummer!"

[Vincardog]

9. His "present" was not the supposed destroyed world.

[SIMPLYB1980]

10. True, but we are talking about a paradox here so

logic doesn't have a whole lot to do with it.

[ret5hd]

2. So those future people can break and/or stop construction of colliders...

But sit and do nothing about global warming, wars, etc.

Okey dokey.

[pipi_k]

5. My fight with them is much more personal...

the dirty bastards won't even tell me what the Lotto number will be

:mad:

[slackmaster]

3. I call it "Yadsmood"

:hi:

[ddeclue]

6. REAL PROBLEM: Couldn't generate 1.21 GigaWatts for the Flux Capacitor!

GREAT SCOTT!!

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

7. I had no idea 8-track players required THAT much juice!

:rofl:

[YOY]

8. 1.21 GigaWatts!?!?!?