Test of Influence from Future in Large Hadron Collider; A Proposal

TL;DR

This paper proposes an experiment using random card draws to test if future-influenced effects can impact the operation of particle colliders like the LHC, aiming to detect potential backward causation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel experimental approach to test theories involving influence from the future on collider initial conditions, including a method to minimize disturbance.

Findings

Design of a statistically minimal impact experiment

Estimation of the influence of high energy and luminosity

Discussion on extracting information if effects are observed

Abstract

We have earlier proposed the idea of making card drawing experiment of which outcome potentially decides whether Large Hadron Collider (LHC for short) should be closed or not. The purpose is to test theoretical models which, like e.g. our own model that has an imaginary part of the action with much a similar form to that of the real part. The imaginary part has influence on the initial conditions not only in the past but even from the future. It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call for initial conditions to have been so arranged as to finally not allow these accelerators to come to work. If there were such effects we could perhaps provoke a very clear cut "miracle" by having the effect make the drawn card be the one closing LHC. Here we shall, however, discuss that a total closing is hardly needed and seek to calculate how one could perform checking experiment for the proposed type of influence from future to be made in the statistically least disturbing and least harmful way. We shall also discuss how to extract most information about our effect or model in the unlikely case that a card restricting the running of LHC or the Tevatron would be drawn at all, by estimating say the relative importance of high beam energy or of high luminosity for the purpose of our effect.