2007/12/05 by Iain W. Stewart, Iain Stewart, Stewart, Iain
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Collider #Computer science #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Hadron #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #International Science and Diplomacy #Iterated function #Large Hadron Collider #Mathematics #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0712.0715
18 pages, minor changes (mainly tracking N&N's title/notation changes etc. in their latest revision of arXiv:0707.1919)
openalex publication_date 2007/12/05 · arxiv created 2007/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We analyse an iterated version of Nielsen and Ninomiya (N&N)'s proposed card game experiment to search for a specific type of backward causation on the running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. We distinguish "endogenous" and "exogenous" potential causes of failure of LHC and we discover a curious "cross-talk" between their respective probabilities and occurrence timescales when N&N-style backward causation is in effect. Finally, we note a kind of "statistical cosmic censorship" preventing the influence from the future from showing up in a statistical analysis of the iterated runs.