Could the Large Hadron Collider be shut down by ripples from the future??

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fqxi.org — As the LHC supposedly gears up, Harvard physicist Kevin Black, based at CERN, investigates rumors that the particle accelerator may, in fact, soon be shut down—by ripples from the future

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Comments (7)

  1. Check the related tab for a very informative documentary on the LHC made by the BBC - The Six Billion Dollar Experiment.

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  2. my head is spinning after reading this- I feel like I just experienced an academic version of Terminator. It is cool though.. at least I think it is cool.

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  3. Every once in a while I encounter an article that has only one possible comment.... Wow. I could read stuff like this all day if my employers only saw fit to watch my head bulge and explode from an over abundance of theory.

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  4. This one gave me a headache, Greg. But I'll vote it up a notch regardless. :-)

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  5. I will vote this up but, I disagree. Higgs have had no impact on my fully functional Flux Capacitor.

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  6. @ everyone I agree- My brain hurts and I understood maybe 5% of this. I feel like I have to take a ride in a Delorean now.

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  7. These are the kind of articles that I would want to get popular more often. It's just interesting enough to interest the smart crowd but also straightforward enough that people who don't understand the whole thing can get a sense of what it is and be informed and entertained at the same time.

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