Oh, this is wonderful: some physicists have suggested that the Large Hadron Collider was broken intentionally by a subatomic particle sent back from the future. Or... something.
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Well yeah. Duh.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | October 13, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I love that they figure that the US congress deciding not to spend money on the supercollider was "an event so unlikely" that it must have been caused by lobbying from special interest particles from the future.
Posted by: Dave Simard | October 14, 2009 at 02:25 AM