The world’s first time machine

Large Hadron Collider could be world’s first time machine

March 16, 2011 by Editor

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Simulated collision of two protons in the Large Hadron Collider, producing a Higgs boson, which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. (Image credit: CERN)

Physicists at Vanderbilt University have proposed a theory that the Large Hadron Collider could be the first machine capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time, says professor Tom Weiler.