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Physicists around the world are excitedly awaiting the start up of the £4.65 billion Large Hadron Collider, LHC - the most powerful atom-smasher ever built - which is supposed to shed new light on the particles and forces at work in the cosmos and reproduce conditions that date to near the Big Bang of creation.
Prof Irina Aref'eva and Dr Igor Volovich, mathematical physicists at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow believe that the vast experiment at CERN, the European particle physics centre near Geneva in Switzerland, may turn out to be the world's first time machine, reports New Scientist.
The debut in early summer could provide a landmark because travelling into the past is only possible - if it is possible at all - as far back as the point of creation of the first time machine.
That means 2008 could become "Year Zero" for temporal travel, they argue.
Originally posted by Sickscent
I've never heard that time travelers travelling into the past could only go as far back as the time that the first time machine was built.
Originally posted by AshleyD
After getting excited because the beginning part of the article made this event sound imminent, upon reading further, words like "possibly" and "maybe" were increasingly used.
Obviously the appearance of time travelers in a "few weeks" is only a possibility so that is a given. But what confused me is do they have the proper working technology or not and is it approaching completion if so? It sounded like they did at first and that this was totally 'probable,' then 'possible,' then 'maybe,' then 'we really don't know if this will work at all.'
Good find, OP. Fascinating stuff.