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Time Travel Idea Given New Life With Data Analysis
Once thought a dead issue, the idea of time travel was given new life this week as scientists interpret new data.In March of 2011, Gadling reported time travel was to be tested at Vanderbilt University. Using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, scientists hoped to find the mysterious Higgs Boson particle, the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons, neutrons and electrons have mass.
"One of the major goals of the collider is to find the elusive Higgs boson. If the collider succeeds in producing the Higgs boson, some scientists predict that it will create a second particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time," reported Vanderbilt's research news.
Professor Tom Weiler and graduate fellow Chui Man Ho thought these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past.
"One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes," Weiler said at the time. "Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example."
This week, researchers from the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, analyzed data from the Large Hadron Collider and are "almost certain that they had proven the existence of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in all of physics," says a CNN report.
The new information comes after Illinois researchers said earlier in the week that scientists had come closer to proving that the particle exists but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion.
No information yet on the Higgs singlet. But proving the existence of the Higgs boson would most likely give new life to the idea of time travel. Not much new life, but some. Professor Weller noted, "if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."
Baby steps.
[Flickr photo by katerha]
The new information comes after Illinois researchers said earlier in the week that scientists had come closer to proving that the particle exists but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion.
No information yet on the Higgs singlet. But proving the existence of the Higgs boson would most likely give new life to the idea of time travel. Not much new life, but some. Professor Weller noted, "if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."
Baby steps.
[Flickr photo by katerha]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andrea Yates Jul 7th 2012 3:11AM
ANY idiot can tell you this is a horrible horrible idea just waiting to happen. See also- grandfather clause, on even embarking forward with the pursuit of time travel, the doppler shift, Schodinger's equation, etc. To be blunt- YOU ALL ARE FUCKING MORONS. Please send me a mensa application, because I just plain quit. I'm on fucking welfare and there's a recession going on and you have GROUPS OF SCIENTISTS working on *this*? How about tube technology? It's statistically proven that we have enough food on this planet each day, gutter or shared, to feed everyone on the planet every day. Instead of crackheads trying to shatter laws like the conservation of energy, we should have them following orders from Jack Black for christ's sake. FUCK YOUR IDIOCRACY.
Dubuc Jul 7th 2012 3:16AM
I agree with 3am girl completely.
What ever happened to the cure for cancer?
Did we just sorta "give up" after we couldn't agree whether" or not global warming/cooling was real? World Peace? Overpopulation/food shortage?
Alternative fuels over efficiency? Better conditions in hospitals?
DUBUC Jul 7th 2012 3:19AM
ps- i heart boobies
Joe Jul 7th 2012 9:36PM
Any fool can send a message to the future now!
We have the technology.
If I am not mistaken, the U.S Post office does this routinely.
J Aug 22nd 2012 12:27AM
please make a capsule made of this particle and I will climb inside....send me back to the 1950s or 60s when at least the music and cars and food was not crap....or into the future when we have cured all the incurable diseases, everyone has equal rights and no one goes hungry.