October 22, 2009

whoa

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.

(via kottke)

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  1. Rick Neece on October 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Think we’ll notice when we all wink out of existence?

  2. range on October 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 am

    it’s always about the Higgs.

  3. Daryl Scroggins on October 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    …then they didn’t say that.

  4. Aaron Winslow on October 23rd, 2009 at 7:48 am

    Physicists and people who write about physics should have to petition some sort of grand and wise council of stoners before being permitted to get high.

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