LHC Could Allow Matter to Travel Through Time

A new theory holds that the Large Hadron Collider may be the first man-made machinery capable of allowing matter to travel back and forth through time. This is accomplished by enabling specific elementary particles to enter a fifth dimension.

According to the proposal, the collisions taking place at the LHC at energy levels of 7 teraelectronvolts (TeV) may be producing elusive particles called Higgs singlets, that could be propelled into a fifth dimensions after being created.

In this extra dimension, they are able to travel back and forth through time, materializing in the past or the future at random. However, even the scientists proposing the theory admit this is unlikely to actually happen in practice.

“Our theory is a long shot, but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints,” explain physics professors Thomas Weiler and Chui Man Ho, who are both based at the Vanderbilt University. In other words, this form of time-travel is theoretically possible.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) constructed the LHC specifically to find the Higgs boson, the hypothesized elementary particle that enables energy to acquire mass.

If it is experimentally detected, then particle physicists will know for sure that the Standard Model used to explain particle interactions in general is correct. This has been the only credible avenue of research in the field for several decades.

In theory, whenever the Higgs boson forms, an accompanying particle called a Higgs singlet is produced. “One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes,” explains Weiler.

“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,” the expert explains.

“However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future,” Weiler goes on to say, quoted by Daily Galaxy.

According to the two experts, if teams monitoring the outcome of LHC collisions begin detecting Higgs singlets, then these particles may have traveled back through time, appearing before the collisions that produced them actually took place.