# Large Hadron Collider: convince me to not be freaked out by this

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**Created:** [July 11, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-hadron-collider-convince-me-to-not-be-freaked-out-by-this/411295 "2007-07-11T01:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-hadron-collider-convince-me-to-not-be-freaked-out-by-this/411295/101 "2008-02-09T11:59:37Z")

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A bump because a new theory has come to light. [The LHC means time travel!](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/06/scitime106.xml)

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> That means 2008 could become “Year Zero” for temporal travel, they argue.

I’ll note that some theories require the total destruction of the universe for time travel to work. :eek:

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