Joe Rogan Experience #2561 - LL Cool J · Aired Oct 6, 2026
Claim summary · not a verbatim quotation
The Large Hadron Collider has enabled time travel by getting particles to go back in time.
The finding
What the evidence shows
LL Cool J describes completed backward time travel, then an article is read aloud whose title says the collider could be a time machine. That wording matches Vanderbilt's March 2011 account of a speculative Higgs-singlet proposal by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho. It describes a possible effect for special particles, not a successful experiment. The claim turns a theoretical possibility into an accomplished result; the on-air lookup supplies useful context but LL repeats the completed-result account afterward.
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Quick answer
Is it true that the Large Hadron Collider has enabled time travel by getting particles to go back in time?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. LL Cool J describes completed backward time travel, then an article is read aloud whose title says the collider could be a time machine. That wording matches Vanderbilt's March 2011 account of a speculative Higgs-singlet proposal by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho. LL Cool J said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2561 - LL Cool J, aired Oct 6, 2026, at 2:27:02. The supporting source is news.vanderbilt.edu, linked below.
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