I'm willing to entertain, for the moment, the idea that some particularly high-energy collisions are capable of reaching back in time and preventing themselves from happening.
But there are easier ways to do it than to reach weeks back in time and blow up a macroscopic object like a transformer. Far more likely that the trajectories of the particles themselves would be altered to just miss.
Now, if they were to actually start up the LHC, run the beams into each other, and find that all the particles were missing each other -- well, that would be really interesting.
In the meantime I'm pretty tired of the fact that every article about the LHC feels the need to throw in the fact that some moron thinks it might destroy the world.
> I'm willing to entertain, for the moment, the idea that some particularly high-energy collisions are capable of reaching back in time and preventing themselves from happening.
Doesn't make sense, to reach back in time to prevent itself from happening, it'd have to happen.
Imagine a stream of water sliding down a string, every once in a while a droplet falls off the string, if the string is our worldline, the droplet is the world where the LHC is fully operational.
//actually that's total bullshit, the higgs boson likes it's privacy that's all.
But there are easier ways to do it than to reach weeks back in time and blow up a macroscopic object like a transformer. Far more likely that the trajectories of the particles themselves would be altered to just miss.
Now, if they were to actually start up the LHC, run the beams into each other, and find that all the particles were missing each other -- well, that would be really interesting.
In the meantime I'm pretty tired of the fact that every article about the LHC feels the need to throw in the fact that some moron thinks it might destroy the world.