An iterated search for influence from the future on the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

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.

Comments: 18 pages, minor changes (mainly tracking N&N's title/notation changes etc. in their latest revision of arXiv:0707.1919)