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Old 12-October-2009, 09:48 PM
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Default More LHC News..but...the grandfather paradox?

Apparently some researchers are suggesting that if the LHC produces the Higgs boson particle the results may include a time reversal such that the LHC is prevented from producing the particle in the first place.

Tounge in cheek? Anyway:
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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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/sc...13lhc.html?hpw
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