Thursday, October 15, 2009
NY Times doubts hadron collider action
"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".
These people are Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, and they put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.
IMO: I have not checked out these papers but in my experience these people are way off track though like most commentators I am not fully up to date with string theory. On time travel, think neuroscience, qualia, even the Matrix or Kurzweil and Second Life if you like. Better still, if seriously academically inclined, read my academic blog. However, historically, at the time of the Manhattan project there were reasonable doubts as to whether it would blow us all up, a sad prospect even during a war. Those involved with the Manhattan project regaled me often with these doubts, many years later.
These people are Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, and they put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.
IMO: I have not checked out these papers but in my experience these people are way off track though like most commentators I am not fully up to date with string theory. On time travel, think neuroscience, qualia, even the Matrix or Kurzweil and Second Life if you like. Better still, if seriously academically inclined, read my academic blog. However, historically, at the time of the Manhattan project there were reasonable doubts as to whether it would blow us all up, a sad prospect even during a war. Those involved with the Manhattan project regaled me often with these doubts, many years later.
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