Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.
In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim nature is trying to prevent the LHC from finding the elusive Higgs boson. Called the “God particle,” the theoretical boson could explain the origins of mass in the universe — if physicists can find the darn thing.
The scientists say their math proves nature will “ripple backward through time” to stop the LHC before it can create the God particle, like a time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
“One could even almost say that we have a model for God,” Dr Nielsen says in an unpublished essay. “He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”
Alfred do you have a job, or are you on SSI?
#41 I own a company…and sit here at my computer…and take breaks visiting DU…
How about you…did your parents have any children that lived?
Spending tens of billions of dollars for a playground for physicists is bad enough. Then having a bidding war to build bigger playgrounds is even worse. But a playground where people try to produce conditions from the Big Bang, and possibly mini-black holes?
@ Mikey
The Europeans are spending the billions, so it’s all good.
Alfred1 owns a company and he’s that stupid? Whew, amazing.
In this story and others, just replace anything Alfred1 quotes with “I got a stupid quote for that.”
Don’t forget your statement about Palin’s landslide win in 2012 Alfie.
$45 Ah…the discrete unit left by schrodinger’s cat, the little hard cat turd himself…
If ignorance is bliss…you must be the happiest person on earth.
And yes, Palin will landslide win in 2012.
Hmeyers, they want the US to build another one.
The only reason the US didn’t build the Superconducting supercollider was that Texas elected a Republican to replace Lloyd Bentsen right before the debate started.
According to most people, vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they protect against, God exists and is meddlesome, ghosts exist and are malevolent, UFO visiting alien life forms exist, stupidity is the greatest source of wisdom and if you believe hard enough, everything will be all right.
So, OF COURSE the present is being screwed with by the future. It would be dangerous for future people to send an eMail back in time, so they perform gross physical changes to equipment, instead.
Being sabotaged from the future is one of many things that some people are concerned about when it comes to the large hadron collider.