LHC card games: bringing about retrocausality?

TL;DR

This paper explores the concept of backward causation in physics, analyzing Nielsen and Ninomiya's controversial model involving a card game to potentially prevent LHC operations, and discusses its theoretical plausibility.

Contribution

It critically examines the backward causation model and assesses the possibility of influencing future events through probabilistic card games in physics.

Findings

Backward causation can be logically consistent in some models.

The Nielsen-Ninomiya proposal could theoretically influence LHC shutdown.

The idea challenges conventional notions of causality in physics.

Abstract

The model of Nielsen and Ninomiya claims that "the SSC (Superconducting Supercollider) were stopped by the US Congress due to the backward causation from the big amounts of Higgs particles, which it would have produced, if it had been allowed to run". They also proposed to play a card game and if the "close LHC" card is drawn (with probability $\sim 10^{-6}$), really close LHC on the eve of Higgs particle discovery to avoid more severe bad luck. Crazy? Probably. But paraphrasing Salvador Dali, if you believe that you and me are smarter in physics than Nielsen and Ninomiya, don't read this article, just go right on in your blissful idiocy. Therefore, I will try to make sense of backward causation. It turns out that not only the backward causation makes perfect sense in some models of possible reality, but that Nielsen and Ninomiya really have a chance to close LHC by a card game. The only thing they need is to be smart enough to manage to develop their theory up to the level of brilliance beginning from which it becomes a part of the fabric of reality. We hope, however, that they will use their outstanding abilities to bring about some more interesting future.