God hates Higgs
Pick a card, any card.
Interesting article in the New York Times about the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC a few weeks back. Two theoretical physicists, Holger B. Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya, have proposed that the Higgs Boson is so “abhorrent to nature” that the future universe is somehow reaching back in time to the present, and sabotaging the LHC to prevent it from creating one.
“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”
They’ve even come up with a way to test the idea: draw a single card from a deck of 1 million cards. If the card you draw is a particular one, then cancel the project. If they are right, then doing the card experiment would seem to be a sensible thing to do as it would save an awful lot of wasted time and money if the project is doomed to failure anyway. Those in charge don’t see it that way though, and have decided not to go along with the Nielsen and Ninomiya’s gamble.
Anyone curious enough to want to read their paper can find it here.
What’s interesting is that the pair started writing about their theory as far back as July 2007 when they predicted in their original papoer that the LHC would fail. It wasn’t until Autumn 2008 that the LHC fell over shortly after being turned on.
These guys might just be having a joke at everyone’s expense, although it appears that many in the Physics community aren’t laughing. While some physicists think this kind of speculation isn’t a problem, others describe the pair’s ideas as ‘embarrassing crackpottery’, or simply ‘crackpotty’.
Personally, I think it might be the beginning of the evidence I’ve been looking for: evidence that we are, indeed, living in the matrix.