Time Machine: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

By admin on May 15th, 2008

Never heard of “traversable wormholes?”
Well, soon you might start hearing about them, as the world’s most powerful particle accelerator becomes functional this spring - unleashing forces, capable of distorting not only space (just like gravity distorts space around Earth), but also TIME.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is set to become the very first time machine in history.

According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, “in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future. But in some space-times the curves can intersect themselves, giving a closed-like curve, which is interpreted as a time machine - which suggests the possibility of time travel”

Two proton beams travel in opposite directions and collide at four points along the way - replicating the Big Bang conditions of “cosmic plasma”, a mysterious almost liquid state, which occurred before quarks had cooled off enough to allow atoms to form together. The Large Hadron Collider will force quarks to break free of their bonds, the matter substance to unravel - to recreate the original “cosmic plasma”, and to reconstruct Big Bang conditions. (hopefully on a much smaller scale)

Here are some quick facts:
- 20-year work-in-progress
- A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground
- facilitating head-on collision of protons, traveling very near the speed-of-light
- each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it.
- temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun’s core
- superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space