April Fools' Joke? Eloi Cole, Arrested At Large Hadron Collider, Claims He's From The Future

Crave at CNET UK:

A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

Read the whole story: Crave at CNET UK

Comments

[Dr Von Zuko]

12:57 PM on 04/26/2010

While this may be too, cerebral for many of you . . . any physicist (who is even moderately aware of the “Laws of Physics”) will tell you “Time Travel” is entirely possible. There are no “Laws of Physics” that prevent it.

As a matter of fact, scientists at CERN, and FERMI and other major labs have proven it at a base level through accelerating proton particles at (close to) light speed. We just don’t have the technologic capabilities (yet) to do anything like that with human beings.

Dr. Lene Hau (a Danish physicist) has demonstrated not only “slowing the speed of light” but has also temporarily stopped light altogether.

Google it if you must . . . you may learn something new!
(or . . . http://www.zuko.com/Inexplicable/Thought_Provoking.asp)

[atila]

04:33 PM on 04/04/2010

If the Hadron Collider is going to destroy the world,how he is from the future?

[SilentSolidarity]

09:55 PM on 04/04/2010

sssshhhh! LMAO! I have to laugh so hard.

[William E Dumrauf]

03:41 AM on 04/07/2010

Well obviously he is from a point in the future where in he (Cole) already came back in time and save humanity from the LHC and therefore created a future that he came from... I win you owe me a Coke!

[William E Dumrauf]

04:04 AM on 04/07/2010

Sorry, minor grammatical errors... wherein , not where in, a couple of commas are missing and saved, not save

[Emerson Crossjostle]

11:38 AM on 04/04/2010

It's all my fault for sending Eloi that text message with a plea for "a little help." I meant for him to just throw back the ball.

[erichnorse]

10:25 AM on 04/03/2010

This guy read Flashforward one too many times.

[AustinCynic]

10:09 AM on 04/03/2010

I'd have believed him if he had come in a police box, rather than on a bike.

[ThinkCreeps]

01:14 AM on 04/03/2010

Surely Morlock would have been better to send to infiltrate tunnels? It's too early in the season for gamboling in swiss meadows.

[rbryanh]

11:49 PM on 04/02/2010

There are two possibilities here:

1) No one at HuffPost is literate enough to identify "Eloi."

2) Someone at HuffPost is so generous that he or she has left us to enjoy getting the joke all by ourselves.

[Higgs Boson]

05:26 AM on 04/03/2010

Did they ask " Eloi " if he had brought any of those Beatles tapes from the other demension with him ?

[jcd8822]

11:16 PM on 04/02/2010

There he gos, ruining it for someone in the future who is really from the future, LOL Would he have passed a screen test.?

[Emerson Crossjostle]

11:10 PM on 04/02/2010

Sounds plausible enough to me.

[RealityBaseCamp]

09:52 PM on 04/02/2010

Eloi, get it?

[bnyb]

04:56 PM on 04/02/2010

He came back.... on a bike?!

[DudleysPa]

10:21 PM on 04/02/2010

You have never heard of recycling?

[invirginia]

04:55 PM on 04/02/2010

I thought I was the only person from the future. Now, somehow, I feel less lonely. Ahh.

[robXdion]

04:51 PM on 04/02/2010

It's John Titor !!!

[Surreal2me]

05:25 PM on 04/02/2010

Love the Titor Story!

[David Hewitt]

04:04 PM on 04/02/2010

My favorite line from the article:

"Professor Brian Cox, a former CERN physicist and full-time rock'n'roll TV scientist, was sympathetic to Mr Cole."

[Allen Gladfelter]

03:39 PM on 04/02/2010

I came back from the future to try to stop the Clash of the Titans remake, but I failed. I FAILED!!!

[amdezurik]

06:47 PM on 04/02/2010

and so, we are doomed!