Large Hadron Collider Could Be World's First Time Machine

[TheLazyGeek]

Oh, so the LHC doesn't create black holes, but it mindf***s people in the present who will understand it an hour before? No, wait. Isn't this the present? I'm so confused.

 

[Twilight_guy]

*receives message from future* *decodes message*
Drink... your... ovaltine... DAMN IT!!!!

That interesting to hear but I don't really buy into it. Physicists can theorize till the cows come home but until I see it happen It just theories based on the current validity of your theories and since no theory is perfect your extended unproven hypothesis can be wrong.

 

[dubious_wolf]

Dear Rome mathematicians, it's called zero. Use it.
That way I can have my flying freaking cars already! Your 10 years late future!

 

[Lancer873]

Weiler describes the theory as a "long shot,"

Understatement of the year, in my opinion. It's a theory on a theory on a theory on a loosely-proven guideline at this point. Wake me up when nothing major happens and they get over all the hullabaloo.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

This seems pretty interesting. Seeing as you could only send messages and to read those messages you'd need a decoder, you couldn't really tamper with the past without them already knowing about the message sender.

Had to laugh at the spam idea though.
"Looks like we got another message from the past. What's it say?"
"Oh it's just the 21st century trying to friend us again."
"Geez, those guys are really desperate huh?"

 

[Jelly ^.^]

I think that there may have been messages from the future, just sent in different forms than we might think.

For example, Methylene was described in a Donald Duck comic 20 years before science was able to prove it existed. And then a few years later the technique of raising sunken ships with ping-pong balls was floated in another Donald Duck comic before anyone had attempted it.

The answers all around us, all we have to do is look where we wouldn't expect to find anything...

 

[klaynexas3]

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 that depends on how you view time to work. perhaps it would only create an alternate time line in which the event didn't occur. while, if this is how time works then it wouldn't matter for shit cause then there would be an alternate time line for that anyway, just without the note. now if you view it as a set in stone type thing then maybe time travel is possible, it's just that it was supposed to happen, like in Harry Potter. time's a confusing thing, and i don't think we should try to tamper with it until we do understand it. so i think that even if this were to work, and it makes a time machine, then he should automatically smash it, in order to prevent anything bad from happening.

The question is though... can we understand it if we don't tamper with it?http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_difference.png
(btw how do i post an image? so i can get rid of this link.)

well played boy

and probably not, so it wouldn't hurt to run a few tests, as long as the scientists knew what they were doing

and idk either

 

[duchaked]

sooo...basically...

couldn't help it =)
thought of this article when I saw this image