Hadron collider as Lovecraftian horror, continued

I know it's easy to pick on The Register, but still, this is fine stuff:

'Something may come through' dimensional 'doors' at LHC
Attack of the Hyperdimensional Juggernaut-Men

It's all riffs on some remarks from scientists at LHC.  Er, based on brainy boffins' bright ideas.

The article has tons of fun with this theme, but finally stoops back to science at the end.

Dr Bertolucci later got in touch to confirm that yes indeed, there would be an "open door", but that even with the power of the LHC at his disposal he would only be able to hold it open "a very tiny lapse of time, 10-26 seconds, [but] during that infinitesimal amount of time we would be able to peer into this open door, either by getting something out of it or sending something into it.

"Of course," adds Bertolucci, "after this tiny moment the door would again shut, bringing us back to our 'normal' four dimensional world ... It would be a major leap in our vision of Nature, although of no practcal use (for the time being, at least)...."

(thanks to Randy McCall; any new Canadian feet, Windsor man?)

Comments

[Thomas]

Science imitates art? Sounds like an idea stolen from /The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension/.