'God particle discovered, physicists say in an article dated thursday 14th march 2013

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest high-energy particle accelerator built by the European Organisation for nuclear research(CERN).

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CERN's atom smasher the large hadron collider that lies beneath the swiss-french border has been creating high energy collisions of protons to investigate how the universe came to be the way it is.

Ref. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2013/03/14/higgs-boson-science-universe/1987039/

It's worth noting that the LHC is an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary machine. Several successful colliders have been built before it. The only fundamental difference between this one and the others is its ability to function at higher energies.

The LHC was built to confirm the existence of the Large Hadron, as described here. It is larger than any other particle accelerator ever built, because that is what is needed to produce the energies required to create the Large Hadron particle (if it exists).

When you build a collider in the shape of a ring, you have to balance your ability to speed up the particles to relativistic speeds against your ability to steer those particles around the ring. This steering requires enormously strong magnetic fields, which is why the LHC uses superconducting magnets. The larger the ring, the less strong these magnetic fields have to be (because the turn is gentler). The LHC measures 27 kilometres around its circumference.

The grandiose nature of the machine has clearly given rise to much speculation about it. But maybe there's nothing more to the machine than what it actually is, which is just a higher-energy supercollider looking for a higher-energy particle.

For those of you who are Star Trek fans, there is a "God Particle" episode in the Star Trek Voyager series called "The Omega Directive."

It's a breathtakingly complex and exquisitely delicate machine. As one observer noted, "Perhaps the fact that it's the size of a small city might have something to do with its problems."

If people were sabotaging it from the future, wouldn't it be easier (especially from a reality-creation standpoint) to prevent the machine from being built in the first place, rather than waiting for it to become fully manifested?

I thought this viewpoint from one of the article's commenters was fun:

Any activity that changes a past event will trigger a change in the physical movement of the people who lived then. To be precise, spermatic fluid will be displaced. For example, all the people connected with the LHC and even those who have read of its problems will have shifted their physical positions.

The result? Children who would have been born won't be. Children who wouldn't have been born will be. Perhaps a girl rather than a boy, or perhaps a few months earlier or later. This in turn generates a cascade of similar changes affecting anyone who comes into contact with them (or fails to do so).

A similar effect can be expected from women, whose physical positions will later be altered at the time of conception (or non-conception).

Consequently, ANY time travel contact with past generations of Earth people or their habitat, constructs and so on will immediately terminate all future events, including the one that produced the individual who is going into the past. This could be a great explanation for all those UFOs that are visible for a short time, then suddenly disappear. Each of those UFOs could be the "first time" that a time-traveller has gone into Earth's past.

As for time travellers targeting the LHC, they would be better advised to reach back into the more distant past and zap the theoretical physicists whose original work formed the foundation for the LHC.

If the LHC is to be stopped (which I think it should be), it should be by people living here and now, not by assassins from the future.

I just read everything, and think this could be the most important scientific discovery since the electron microscope! About this future changing the past stuff, it seems to me that probably their technology to time travel probably depended on the invention of this LHC thing.

Well on the other hand every time we get some technology or answer that can benefit the earth, government spends big money on using that to create new bigger and badder weapons. "Oh wait you mean with this thing I can destroy the world at the press of a button? Yes we need this to keep peace!" Ridiculous! What next the solar system, even the galaxy? "I'm warning you if you launch your nukes then we'll just blow up the galaxy." That is what it seems like never enough fire power! It is too bad we couldn't put our technology to use in a non lethal way for defense and peace. I think it was Nicola Tesla that built a ray that could disable any machine for many miles, that was a peace weapon, no one could launch anything when that was on.

I think sadly we are not (as a race) spiritually advanced enough for our technology; too many still seek more and more ways to (in case ever needed) completely obliterate each other.

I remember hearing with Einstein's theory, we could have invented ways to feed the whole earth and ways to teleport, in other words many things to benefit earth. But what has history shown we decided to do with it? Build bigger and badder bombs to blow up countries with, (for just in case needed). So maybe this technology in the future is used to make some kind of super weapons that work at the level of direct reality creation and manipulation.

If that is the case we created some kind of super weapon, then actually used it, (after all what good is an unused weapon?) In this case I could see why we would come back to sabotage it from ever working, because we might have messed up the nature of existence itself!

Other than this being used for a weapon, it could benefit the human race probably immeasurably.

The measure of science and its progress coupled with what some call spirituality will soon be revealed to all.

This is the leading edge. And many theologists (ego) will not be pleased.

I heard a legend a decade or so ago that when they fire up these big colliders, there is a spate of particle detections before the experiment begins. The punch line is that these are high-energy particles from the experiment that have tunneled backward through time.

Has anyone else heard this one?

What would happen if, having detected the particles, the experimenters decided not to proceed with the collision?

lhc they are trying to create another universe another big bang! what is the problem with this universe? could they not go try that at the edge of the universe in case it goes out of hand? i just hope they fail so they do not succed and create another big bang in this universe! are we on the verge of another tower of babylon?