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Message 21550 - Posted: 13 Oct 2009, 8:05:19 UTC

A new article in the New York Times about the LHC.

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.


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Message 21553 - Posted: 13 Oct 2009, 14:31:15 UTC

Interesting article. But to travel back in time you need particles that can travel faster than light, called tachyons. So a strings theory guru is postulating the existence of tachyons?
Another interesting article, this on the CERN official site, linked the LHC to a TV serial called FlashForward where the Higgs boson, once discovered, propels all mankind 21 years in the future for a couple of minutes, then propels them back. So they can see themselves as old people or even dead. Horrible.
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Message 21555 - Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 1:20:12 UTC - in response to Message 21553.  

Interesting article. But to travel back in time you need particles that can travel faster than light, called tachyons. So a strings theory guru is postulating the existence of tachyons? {content edited}
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I don\'t think tachyons are the point. I prefer Einstein\'s approach... “For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.”
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Message 21561 - Posted: 18 Oct 2009, 17:10:10 UTC - in response to Message 21555.  
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I like the solid ground that Einstein used in his theories too, but the LHC deals with Quantum Physics and there the rules change. We are not even certain that there are any rules so that the possibilities could be endless. These problems and successes might be a result of our thoughts and personal views about LHCs outcome such as Dr. Nielsens string theory by making ourselves the observer that creates reality. Maybe he created the problem. I believe we should keep our minds focused on revealing positive and successful results from the LHC. So who has the stronger faith. Him or Me.
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Message 21564 - Posted: 22 Oct 2009, 6:50:15 UTC - in response to Message 21553.  

The existance of Tachyons does propose some unique problems. According to theory, a particle achieving the speed of light also attains an infinite mass in this universe, so to postulate the existance of a Tachyon, which travels faster than light, would also propose the existance of parallel universes with differant laws of physics. If an Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge was created by a Tachyon particle field then the problem of infinite mass might be resolved, allowing a faster than light particle field to flow through a sub-space corridor and managing to travel back in time as though our existance was some type of a linear phenomenon. A scary thought would be if we were caught in a time looping event cause by a LHC experiment that was continuously repeating a segment of linear time and never allowing us to reach a date in time where we get some LHC data to crunch.
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Message 21572 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009, 8:33:19 UTC - in response to Message 21553.  
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Another interesting article, this on the CERN official site, linked the LHC to a TV serial called FlashForward where the Higgs boson, once discovered, propels all mankind 21 years in the future for a couple of minutes, then propels them back. So they can see themselves as old people or even dead. Horrible.
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Did you see last weeks Flashforward? It seems somewhere in China a facility has been built that is like a giant EMP wave production plant, but I believe it would be more like a tachyon burst similar to an EMP except a non ionic partical wave being produced. www.hulu.com is showing all the episodes.
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Message 21575 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009, 15:48:41 UTC

It says \"Sorry, our video library can only be streamed to the US\". I am in Italy.
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Message 21577 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009, 8:02:55 UTC - in response to Message 21575.  
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It says "Sorry, our video library can only be streamed to the US". I am in Italy.

tullio, I am so sorry you can't receive the video stream. I had no idea it was a USA feed only. I was really hopeing you would get the chance to see these episodes because by your writings I can see your interest in the show Flashforward. It would have been nice of them to inform us of the conditions of service. If I ever find a way to get around that glitch, you'll be the first person I'll tell.
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Message 21597 - Posted: 5 Nov 2009, 18:52:44 UTC - in response to Message 21575.  

tullio, I would rather be in Italy and miss FlashFoward than be stuck here in Arizona,USA. About 35 years ago when I was young and skinny, I had the chance to travel with an elite choir to Wein, Austria. We performed with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra live on television at the Wein Opera House as it was being broadcast around the world. Our chorus was combined with students from the worlds top 3 performing choral groups and we having come from a high school choir in Texas. Our performances would be followed by 10 minutes of standing ovations by the worlds greatest directors everywhere we sang.
But Ill never forget the land and the people that lived in that part of the world. So pleasant and with history. It must be wonderful to live in Italy. And you are so close to the LHC. I am jealous but happy to find such interesting people on this site.

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Message 21598 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 11:17:01 UTC - in response to Message 21597.  

tullio, I would rather be in Italy and miss FlashFoward than be stuck here in Arizona,USA. About 35 years ago when I was young and skinny, I had the chance to travel with an elite choir to Wein, Austria. We performed with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra live on television at the Wein Opera House as it was being broadcast around the world. Our chorus was combined with students from the worlds top 3 performing choral groups and we having come from a high school choir in Texas. Our performances would be followed by 10 minutes of standing ovations by the worlds greatest directors everywhere we sang.
But Ill never forget the land and the people that lived in that part of the world. So pleasant and with history. It must be wonderful to live in Italy. And you are so close to the LHC. I am jealous but happy to find such interesting people on this site.

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I spent one year at Thomas Jefferson School in St.Louis, MO. Italy may be a wonderful country but has big problems with Mafia, \'Ndrangheta and Camorra. Sometimes I regret not having stayed in the USA.I have two sons and they are sending me pictures on their sons, all beautiful.Arizona is not that bad after all. You don\'t have these problems. Cheers.
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Message 21668 - Posted: 23 Nov 2009, 17:35:28 UTC - in response to Message 21598.  
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"The grass is always greener on the other side." It's my hopes and prayers that these Terrorist Factions, Mafia, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra, leave the peaceful and kind people that do live in Italy, and become understanding of the true nature of PEACE. I can only ask for the Minstering of Angels at this time to protect you and the many others wanting peace, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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