Flashforward (novel)
 Flashforward is a science fiction novel by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer first published in 1999. The novel is set in 2009. At CERN the Large Hadron Collider accelerator is performing a run to search for the Higgs boson. The experiment has a unique side effect; the entire human race loses consciousness for about two minutes. During that time nearly everyone sees themselves roughly twenty-one years and six months in the future.