Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

[Crono]

Of course this was fake. It's not 2011 yet, and it's not me.

 

[DangerAardvark]

If he's also claiming to have sabotaged the hadron with that baugette in November, he's either leaping back in forth in time, or he's in no big hurry to try to stop the world from being destroyed.

For all we know, he could be leaping from life to life, setting things right which once went wrong, each time hoping that the next leap will be the final leap home.

 

[fantolay]

ahahah too funny

 

[RearAdmiral]

bahbah bah bah.. bahbah bah bah.. bahbah bah bah baah... wirrrrwriirwriiiwriiiriiiiiiii!!!
"PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT!!"

lolol

 

[ichy]

Cosmic rays with 100x the energy coming from all directions in the general universe and hitting the atmosphere haven't ended the world yet.

From what I recall the most powerful cosmic rays have something like seven or eight orders of magnitude more energy than anything they'll do at the LHC. In the grand scheme of the universe all of humanity's achievements are utterly insignificant.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Well, make him identify his parents, and kill any children or sterilize them to prevent it. When it doesn't produce the desired scientific results chop him up as chum.

 

[Joepublic2]

From what I recall the most powerful cosmic rays have something like seven or eight orders of magnitude more energy than anything they'll do at the LHC. In the grand scheme of the universe all of humanity's achievements are utterly insignificant.

Yeah, you're correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-energy_cosmic_ray

Cool stuff. Didn't realize it had THAT much more energy than a random cosmic ray.

Cosmic rays with even higher energies have since been observed. Among them was the Oh-My-God particle (a play on the nickname "God particle" for the Higgs boson) observed on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists, who estimated its energy to be approximately 3 × 1020 electronvolts (50 joules)—in other words, a subatomic particle with macroscopic kinetic energy equal to that of a baseball (142 g or 5 ounces) traveling at 96 km/h (60 mph).

LHC can accelerate protons to the energy of a mosquito in flight. People have detected cosmic rays (a single proton) at energies of a fricking baseball in flight at 60mph.

 

[ViRGE]

... and 12 Monkeys & The Time Machine & Back To The Future &...

& Doctor Who!

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age