Scientists have claimed that the key to unlocking the secret of time travel could lie in the 17 mile long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based underground near Geneva. The theory is that the world's biggest atom smasher might be able to unleash Higgs singlet, a particle that could appear before the collision that produced it. But there are still a few obstacles in the way, like scientists not being sure whether the LHC is capable of creating it. This particular particle has been dubbed the "God particle" and is believed to have been crucial in forming the cosmos after the Big Bang.
According to a report in LiveScience, regarding the Higgs singlet, physicists say that finding it could pave the way for messages to be sent both to the past and the future. "Our theory is a long shot, but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints," the Daily Mail quoted physicist Tom Weiler of Vanderbilt University, as saying. Writing in the research website http://arxiv.org/ , Weiler and fellow scientist Chui Man Ho explained that if the LHC manages to find the elusive Higgs boson then a Higgs singlet may be produced at the same time.
To prove their theory the team needs the LHC to show evidence of Higgs singlet particles and their decay products appearing at the same time. If that happens, it means that they would have been prooduced by particles that have gone back in time, or through another dimension, to pre-date the collision that produced them in the first place. The theory that allows for the Higgs singlet to jump back and forth in time is called the M Theory. This holds that we exist in a four-dimensional "membrane", three dimensions of space and one of time, which floats in a 10 or 11-dimension universe. "One of the attractive things about this approach ti time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes," Weiler said.
"Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born," for example. "However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future," he stated.
According to a report in LiveScience, regarding the Higgs singlet, physicists say that finding it could pave the way for messages to be sent both to the past and the future. "Our theory is a long shot, but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints," the Daily Mail quoted physicist Tom Weiler of Vanderbilt University, as saying. Writing in the research website http://arxiv.org/ , Weiler and fellow scientist Chui Man Ho explained that if the LHC manages to find the elusive Higgs boson then a Higgs singlet may be produced at the same time.
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| A part of the LHC located at CERN in Geneva. |
To prove their theory the team needs the LHC to show evidence of Higgs singlet particles and their decay products appearing at the same time. If that happens, it means that they would have been prooduced by particles that have gone back in time, or through another dimension, to pre-date the collision that produced them in the first place. The theory that allows for the Higgs singlet to jump back and forth in time is called the M Theory. This holds that we exist in a four-dimensional "membrane", three dimensions of space and one of time, which floats in a 10 or 11-dimension universe. "One of the attractive things about this approach ti time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes," Weiler said.
"Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born," for example. "However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future," he stated.
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