Nature Abhors a Vacuum

Strap yourself in kids, we’re geeking out.

The possibility of a time travelling particle is currently doing the rounds of Geekendom. The Higgs Boson particle, theorised to exist for only a tiny micro-moment at the start of the universe is used to explain how the universe has as much mass as it does. Personally I put it down to late night snacking and catching taxis, but thats me.

Scientists, who clearly watch too much Stargate SG1, Atlantis and now Universe, are trying to recreate it – but every time they do, the incredibly expensive, complicated and delicate pieces of equipment they are using keep breaking. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in, well give it so large, France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, has fallen over (not literally) a couple of times when they have tried this.

The result is. some pretty wild theories are starting to roll around.

“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.”

While I cant comment on the physics*, I can say that a/ it sounds pretty far fetched, 2/ I suspect these guys are spending too much time alone or at Star Trek Conventions and iii/ it also sounds really cool – where can I get me one.

*and therefor should probably shut up on the whole thing