10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Time Travel Exists

5. The Large Hadron Collider

Look, we're not going to claim to be experts on the Large Hadron Collider. We can't even claim that we don't laugh every time we get the middle word wrong (which happens a lot). But we're pretty sure that CERN have been building a giant time machine.

The LHC is the most complex thing ever built by humans, 17 miles in circumference, 574 feet underground and the most powerful atom smasher ever created, allowing collision of protons at nearly the speed of light. It's so powerful that scientists and tabloids alike were a little concerned that it could lead to the creation of a black hole or a wormhole, a rip in the universe which could destroy the entirety of existence. Or allow time travel. One or the other, for sure.

Anyway, the Collider has been switched on numerous times without reality collapsing, and they managed to find the mysterious Higgs boson particle last year without the world ending, so we guess that's time travel confirmed, right? Stephen Hawking's assertion about time travel was that we hadn't been overrun by tourists from the future yet, but that might be because they can only go back as far as when time travel was invented. Which means that we should all be keeping an eye out for people in shiny clothing, wearing advanced versions of Google Glass and using swear words we don't understand, because the LHC may very well be our first step to time travel.

"Our theory is a long shot," admits Tom Weiler, physics professor at Vanderbilt University, "but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints." The discovery of the Higgs boson was theorised to create another particle, called the Higgs singlet, which Weiler and partner Chui Man Ho's theory centres on: these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past. Boom! Science! Inventing time travel. Thanks, Switzerland!