The concept of time travel is fast becoming a reality, with Russian Mathematician Igor Volovich forecasting the world's most powerful Particle Accelerator as having the potential to make 2008 into Year Zero.

The year in which time travelling capabilities becomes established will be labelled Year Zero, since it will be the earliest time all future entities will be able to return or transmit messages to. Since no portal or capabilities will have existed prior to Year Zero, there would be no way to return to previous times. It is only possible to travel back in time to the first stable wormhole.

The Large Hadron Collider fires protons at each other at the speed of light to create a disturbance. It is so forceful that it has the potential to tear a hole in time and space, effectively opening a wormhole which, if stabilised, will allow transmissions (data or entities) from the future to arrive. The device is being upgraded to accommodate this feature and is marked for completion in May 2008.

Alex Kara