{"id":3521,"date":"2011-03-16T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T17:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2011-03-16T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T17:57:19","slug":"this-weeks-hype-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hype II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LHC-related hype is coming fast and furious this week during my vacation, with Vanderbilt University yesterday issuing a press release headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2011\/03\/hadron-collider-time-machine\/\">Large Hadron Collider could be world&#8217;s first time machine<\/a>.   It&#8217;s based on <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1103.1373\">this paper<\/a>, and the Vanderbilt press release explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weiler and Ho\u2019s theory is based on M-theory, a \u201ctheory of everything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The press release has been picked up by lots of other media outlets, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-501465_162-20043648-501465.html\">CBS News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2011\/03\/15\/Physicists-propose-collider-time-travel\/UPI-51411300243945\/\">UPI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather impressive that these tests of M-theory at the LHC will not only provide evidence for other universes, but allow time travel in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LHC-related hype is coming fast and furious this week during my vacation, with Vanderbilt University yesterday issuing a press release headlined Large Hadron Collider could be world&#8217;s first time machine. It&#8217;s based on this paper, and the Vanderbilt press release &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}