It's getting creepy, isn't it?

Maybe in the future we can engineer reality by making the desired result be the least unlikely thing that could prevent the LHC from powering up.

Well, I can't think of anyone living today that I would trust with the power to travel through time (including myself). Yet time travel is theoretically possible, if the LHC experiments turn out a certain way, and inevitable if there really are time travelers throwing crap into the works.

So said time travelers pretty much have to just be delaying the inevitable, maybe until such point that they judge us worthy of wielding this power responsibly. It strange that they don't simply sabotage the LHC in any of a variety of ways to just make the whole thing blow up. Maybe the critical time where we could be considered worthy is actually closer than we think, close enough that the LHC itself can be used to discover it, but "not yet." Hell, maybe the weird sabotages are actually clues to what we need to do before we can open this particular "gift."

Not really taking it seriously, but I think it might make an entertaining sci-fi story some day.

Actually, as I recall the guys who first posited this "future influence" thing actually made testable predictions, so if time travel works like THEY think it works, they might actually find proof.

Well, on one hand, if the LHC's discovery of time travel takes place at a different time than the futurians think it should, then it's unlikely they'll hesitate to kill to make it happen in the way that brings them about. If it happens differently, odds are they'll lose more than their lives, they could lose their very existence.

On the other hand, they'll need to keep themselves hidden if they don't want to open up a Pandora's Box of alternate possibilities. So such a campaign would have to be undertaken with a lot of subtlety. In fact, generating a combination of slow-growing hysteria with the "LHC will destroy the WUUUUURLD!" memes, infiltrating saboteurs into the operations staff, and gradually fabricating a variety of false charges against all the actual scientists that seem unquestionably real because there is far more documentation of the falsehood than there could be if it was just a one-off forgery... that would be the sort of campaign I would mount if I was the one trying to stop the LHC from the future.