In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:33:37 -0400: Hi, [snip] >My sister sent me this link under the Subject: huh? wtf? > >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html > >QUOTE: > >"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." > >And these mainstream physicists say that we have a screw loose!
Sounds like self deprecating humor to me. A comment of the difficulty of finding the Higgs boson (BTW you can search for a very long time for something that doesn't exist). > >- Jed Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
