From Steven Filgueiras
If I have understood wormhole generation at the Large Hadron Collider correctly, (9 February, p 33) we should not be holding our breath waiting for silver-suited visitors from the future in 2008.
Imagine this, if you will: in 2008, the LHC goes online. By 2010, sifting through particle debris shows that wormholes are being generated. In maybe 2018, dark energy is “discovered” and produced artificially in a lab.
On 1 January 2050, scientists at the LHC create a wormhole and hold it in place using a stabilising field, conveniently invented the year before, while they enlarge it with a “dark energy generator”.
After three months of pumping the wormhole full of dark energy, it is now large enough for a human to use it to travel through time. On 1 April 2050, scientists announce to the world that they now have the power to travel back in time – as far back as… 1 January 2050, the date the wormhole was created.
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The world sighs and goes back to worrying about the global shortage of jet-pack fuel.
Surely it will be obvious when science succeeds at time travel. ¾«¶«´«Ã½s will become the most obsessive of gamblers, and start buying football clubs on the proceeds. And university science places will be in high demand.
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