Large Hadron Collider Could Be World's First Time Machine

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

If we haven't already received a message from the past saying 'hey, we found the particle but you still need to look for it or else there'll be a paradox' then I'm calling no on this one.

Seriously, the first thing I'd do with a time machine is leave myself the notes for how to build a time machine in the past, creating a stable time loop.

 

[Vanbael]

Hmm, interesting. Now can we work on Mass Effect field generators?

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I believe that if it worked, it would already have happened. Either that or tear the universe.

Science: Continually striving to DOOM US ALL.

This message brought to you by The Vatican.

Actually I'm a Pantheist.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Uhm, no. While a particle that travels backwards in time can certainly exist, it can by its very definition never be detected. Sorry guys, that's a major physics fail.

 

[Captain Pancake]

But if this were possible wouldn't we have got the messages from our future selves already, telling us not to do stupid stuff or to take the opportunity when it presented itself?

 

[Sporky111]

I wonder if this theory was sent to them from the future . . .

In any case, I just can't get over the fact that the top physicists in the world are studying something called a "Higgs sniglet". That just sounds silly, and it's fun to say XD

 

[Aeshi]

Anyone else think that the theory may have been sent from the future?

Not much of a "theory" if it has.

 

[iseko]

First message from the future:

Do you want cheap viagra? Only 99cents a box. Order now!

 

[alrekr]

Part of me doesn't like the sound of this. Personally I'd rather leave time travel to The Doctor.

At least we're not gonna send anyone through it to mess up history.

sending anything can get the same result ....
if i send a message to say 1937 and tell them .. kill this Hitler fellow , hes a douche in the making. the entire earth will change.

time travel is just a big ass paradox , also if this is a potential time machine in Theory the fact that we have no messages from the future at this very moment proves we dont invent a time machine ever...

Well to be able to send messages you might need a machine that can recieve them. This would explain why we haven't sent messages back in time yet as we can only send them back to the point when we first created the machine.

 

[random_bars]

Not possible. If it was, we'd have been seeing mysterious messages appearing everywhere for the last however-many-years.

 

[Ganthrinor]

Time Travel is more complicated than the classic "I can go back and watch the past in person" assumption. It doesn't work that way, the past is inviolate.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Agreed if time travel were possible we would know becuase time travelers would be here.

No, because we could logically only encounter time travelers after the first successful attempt at traveling through time.
That is, assuming time is linear.
I'll just stop now before I start bleeding from my ears.

 

[Fangface74]

The next time machine huh?

I think I read about this sometime next week...

 

[superbatranger]

Why do I feel like people will use this to send prank "calls" through time?

 

[Rhaff]

They are wrong in saying that it does not have any paradoxes. If we send a message to the past, that says, "kill baby Hitler" then our time line would be forever different.

Also, as Carl Sagan once said, it is almost certain that time travel cannot exist. If time travel were possible we would have been visited by a future person already detailing how to make such a machine, or what to look out for. The same can be said about the messages. If this really is possible, then how come we haven't got messages yet? All they have to say is, ok, lets set up a camera to capture the messages in this ONE spot, forever. It will ALWAYS be in THIS spot at exactly 12 midnight from NOW ON. Then all they would have to do, is set up that camera, and wait for the future people to send a message to that spot. Tickle me retarded, but this isn't possible.

Actually i remember watching a documentary more than a year ago, detailing how time travel is theoretically possible by creating a loop in time, this however would mean be can only travel as far back as when the machine was first turned on.

 

[Nemesis729]

Part of me doesn't like the sound of this. Personally I'd rather leave time travel to The Doctor.

At least we're not gonna send anyone through it to mess up history.

sending anything can get the same result ....
if i send a message to say 1937 and tell them .. kill this Hitler fellow , hes a douche in the making. the entire earth will change.

time travel is just a big ass paradox , also if this is a potential time machine in Theory the fact that we have no messages from the future at this very moment proves we dont invent a time machine ever...

Or they made it and decided not to use it, Or sent a letter to someone a year from now, OR they sent a letter and no one ever got it or just threw it out.... Just throwing those out there lol