Time travellers from the future ‘could be here in weeks’
The first time travellers from the future could materialise on Earth within a few weeks.
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.
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.
Time travel was born when Albert Einstein’s colleague, Kurt Gödel, used Einstein’s theory of relativity to show that travel into the past was possible.
Now IF you happen to meet your other self: Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t touch anything. Don’t do anything. Don’t interact with anyone. And, try not to look at anything…
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