http://tinyurl.com/yzadjbxFrom the NY Times:
October 13, 2009
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
By DENNIS OVERBYE
More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and
frigid helium shut it down, the world's biggest and most
expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron
Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if
all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an
underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for
forces and particles that reigned during the first
trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and
revolutionary theories in science. I'm not talking about
extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black
holes that eat the Earth. No, I'm talking about the
notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by
its own future.
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....
