Tracy,

I'll have to dig up the name of the book I read in the last couple of years, the premise was the Texas super collider project went online and the particle emissions became a beacon for a rather nasty alien race to come take over the planet.

> perhaps a time-traveling bird was sent from the future to sabotage the experiment. ... latest in a series of physics research projects whose purposes are so unacceptable to the universe that they are doomed to fail, subverted by the future.
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