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    plm1776: Okay, guys (and I notice most people commenting here ARE guys) here's the problem with time travel. It's kind of gross, but be patient. Any activity ... more »
    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: "We're not incompetent. The Future is out to get us..." more »
    rek: Perhaps this is evidence of the God of the Gaps. He sits there in his gaps, trying rather impotently to stop us from shining light on what he's hiding. more »
    Vondruke: so, being the size of a small city has nothing to do with it problems? more »
    Frappe: That would explain some things ... more »
    Jay042: There is a theory that states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,it will instantly disappear and be rep... more »
    Paul_Is_Drunk: God did it? I thought we had, y'know, SCIENTISTS working on this. Also, it is a paradox to go back and prevent your grandfather from being hit by a ... more »
    jonhall8: I would think a better explanation would be the anthropic principle + quantum immortality. We exist in a universe where the LHC hasn't destroyed the u... more »
    phoghat: Don't call it god, it doesn't like that. more »
    TheTonyShow: If you read the two quoted statements (in the gray boxes) using the voice of the narrator from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, they become... more »
    Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies: Higgs Boson may or may not exist. If it does not exist then this is just a comical theory. If it does exist, then taking all the supernovae, black hol... more »
    Chip Overclock: As if SkyNet didn't have enough to worry about with just John Conner. more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: Hah! I knew it. I always figured the future could affect the present, or the past, depending on your perspective. Now physicists agree with me! Ev... more »
    Dirk Anger: more »
    gregmillage000: if this is true explain George Bush. more »
    EstimatedProphet: It looks like most of you, at least the posts I can see, fail to understand what's really being said here. It's not a person going back in time and d... more »
    Lassus: And yet no one is sending something from the future to prevent the Eagles and/or Glenn Frey? I don't think so. more »
    Chuck: Hmmm.... Have there been any John Titor sightings in Europe lately? more »
    TPL2008: Remember what that Gold Standard of modern science fiction Lexx told us would happen when the Higgs Boson was observed! more »
    Atomictao: Clearly, the Large Hadron Collider and the theoretical physicists are being bedeviled by evil magics. more »
  • #largehadroncollider

    Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future?

    What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson. More »
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    What Happens When You Kill Your Own Grandfather As A Baby?

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