Sabotaged from the Future

It's been a while, my apologies for the delay. Busy times mean less blawegsome. Anyway, here we are.

In Switzerland, a group called CERN has built a massive particle accelerator. It's called the Large Hadron Collider, it's an 18 MILE long particle accelerator built underground designed to smash photons into each other at 99% the speed of light. The purpose of the collider is to find the Higgs boson particle, also called the "God Particle," which is believed to give all matter it's mass. Finding the particle could shed light on the origin of the universe. This is as real as it gets.

Unfortunately, the project hasn't exactly run smoothly. In October 2005, a technician was killed in the tunnel when a crane load was dropped on him. In March 2007, a magnet broke during a test. Turns out the insulation wasn't thick enough to deal with the forces of the magnets used. It's computer network was hacked in August 2008. In September of 2008, there was a rupture of some helium tanks during powering tests. Then, in July 2009, two vacuum leaks were found when they tried to fire it up.

To the normal observer, it may seem like these are a string of unforeseeable and unrelated coincidences. Perhaps. But consider the view of Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan. These guys say that the project is being sabotaged...FROM THE FUTURE. Specifically, the forces of nature will ripple back through time to stop the particle from being discovered.

Now, these guys aren't saying that the particle is eventually found and goes back in time to destroy itself. That's the time travel paradox - if you go back in time to stop yourself from existing in the first place, you could not do that because you never would have existed. So while you can't go back in time and kill your grandfather, you COULD go back in time to keep him from being hit by a bus. These scientists say that's what is going on here - If CERN finds the particle, it would destroy the Universe, and something is going back in time to keep the Universe from getting hit by a bus.

I admire these scientists for working the system. Cause here's what they've done: they're saying that the CERN project, one of the most complex and advanced scientific projects ever, will continue to experience problems. Yes, I believe that juggler with 24 balls in the air will drop one every once in a while. And their justification for their theory? It's happening from the future! Perfect - because you cannot prove them wrong. At least not yet...

Personally though, I am going to side with the the scientists' future-saboteur theory here. When time travel becomes available, of course people are going to want to go into the past and mess with stuff. That's just human nature. But let's just assume these guys are right for a second. If finding the particle would indeed destroy the universe, then there would be nothing or no one TO come back and keep the particle from being discovered.

Consider the 2007 incident. Fermilab director Pier Oddone stated "In this case we are dumbfounded that we missed some very simple balance of forces"
From where I'm sitting there are only two possible explanations:

1) A group of the smartest physicists in the entire world "missed some very simple balance of forces," and all these other accidents are pure coincidences, OR

2) The project is being sabotaged from the future.

I'm going with 2. Of course, this means that time travel is created without the finding of the God particle. Which means I still have time!

Admittedly, my support of this theory is not without my own personal gain. The idea adds a whole new element to "Wasted Planet," my screenplay about the battle for Earth between the TrashBerg Monster and Aliens. Let's just say a new player has emerged...the FUTURE.