LHC card games: bringing about retrocausality?
Z.K. Silagadze

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 ), 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…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCosmology and Gravitation Theories · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
