Awesome Or Off-Putting: Gigantic Particle Accelerator May Cause Time Travel Side-Effect In May 2008

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This week: Scientific Wonders

In June of this year you're gonna get fed up with your Nana's dependence on pain killers, blood thinners and skin tighteners. You're gonna take it upon yourself to flush the whole bunch of 'em down the privy, and she'll die precisely two hours later for lack of her medicinal necessities. That's murder, friend.

Don't worry though, because you won't have to live with offing your Dad's Mom forever, you know, in prison and what-not. That's because according to some legitimate Russian brains, a time portal will briefly open in May of 2008 in which visitors from the future can step through.

Government willing, you could use the chance to set things straight now, couldn't you?

It wasn't so long ago we told you all about how time travel could be yours for just a few hundred dollars. Also in the past we talked about how the big bang was bunk. Today's topic touches on both of those issues.

CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and they are currently working on a massive project. According to their own website:

"Like the last pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle, the final components of the titanic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN are slotting into place. At ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb the remaining large pieces of equipment are being carefully lowered into the caverns in preparation for the start up later this year of the most powerful particle accelerator ever, the LHC."

The accelerator is about three hundred feet underground, and has a circumference of 17 miles. In May it's set to launch two particle beams in opposite directions around the rings. The two beams are set to collide in four different places, and hopefully be transformed into energy. The purpose, as we've heard it explained, is to recreate the goings-on just after the big bang. The purpose, as National Geographic explains it, is to:

"…to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is made of; in other words, to get to the very bottom of things."

It's an absolutely massive device, as we've already explained, and racing particles around sounds safe enough - but a couple of Russian mathematicians, Irina Aref’eva and Igor Volovich, think otherwise. They thing the circumstances created by the accelerator could be just right to tear the fabric of time itself. The Telegraph explains their point of view:

"…the Russians argue that when the energies of the LHC are concentrated into a subatomic particle - a trillionth the size of a mosquito - they can do strange things to the fabric of the universe, which is a blend of space and time that scientists called spacetime. While Earth's gravity produces gentle distortions in spacetime the LHC energy can distort time so much that it loops back on itself. These loops are known to physicists as "closed timelike curves" and they ought, at least in theory, to allow us to revisit some past moment."

The exact time of the portal's opening will be written all over the history books. As a result, when technology has possibly evolved sufficiently, future-folk will be able to take advantage of the opening and step well into 2008.

Will it happen? Probably not. Can it happen? If it's good enough for Russian math-nerds it's good enough for us.

Read More:

Time Travel Possible Very Soon? - Digital Trends