LHC to Restart this Weekend, Again: More Freak Accident to Come?

by Scott Wu | November 17, 2009 at 04:28 pm

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After more than one year of delay, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could restart as soon as this weekend. Earlier this month, a piece of baguette caused the £4.4 billion LHC to overheat. More freak accidents to come?

Two physicists, Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, published papers arguing the LHC was sabotaged from the future.

The papers suggest that the Higgs boson may be "abhorrent to nature" and the LHC's creation of the Higgs sometime in the future sends ripples backward through time to scupper its own creation. Each time scientists are on the verge of capturing the Higgs, the theory holds, the future intercedes.

Last September the LHC was shut down for repair due to a electrical problem that caused liquid helium leakage.

Alarmists tried to stop the experiment saying the LHC will creating a black hole and consume the earth. A series of accidents that kept delaying the experiment only seem to confirm that the universe doesn't want it to work. Nonetheless, CERN scientists will keep trying, maybe until they capture a time-traveling saboteur red handed.