Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.
In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim nature is trying to prevent the LHC from finding the elusive Higgs boson. Called the "God particle," the theoretical boson could explain the origins of mass in the universe — if physicists can find the darn thing.
The scientists say their math proves nature will "ripple backward through time" to stop the LHC before it can create the God particle, like a time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
"While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus," Dannis Overbye wrote in the New York Times.
Fascinating. So someone - or something (or maybe God Himself) is trying to stop humanity from destroying itself. Not by global warming, not by nuclear weapons, not by disease or plague or pandemic - but by sucking itself into a self-created black hole.
Which begs the question... if humanity (and therefore the Earth itself) IS destroyed by a black hole, then who will be left in the future to try to save us?
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