I've been collecting links to stories about the theory that Higgs particles are preventing themselves from being formed in the LHC.
The theory basically says that the Higgs boson can't be created, therefore if we have a machine that's capable of creating one at some point in the future, then effects from the future will flow back to - well, to now, really - to ensure that the LHC isn't capable of producing a Higgs boson.
Physicists are divided on this - but do remember that things like quarks and the Uncertainty principle would have been considered total whack only a century ago. And then just as they start cranking up the eV levels on LHC again - this. I presume it isn't a belated April Fool's joke, but I wish it were. Oh how I wish it were...
Because after Schroedinger's Cat and Schroedinger's Kittens, how much more bizarre an occurrence does there have to be before the message gets across? A fricken bird dropping a bread roll, it doesn't get any more bizarre than that.
(For anyone that wants to know about Schroedinger's Kittens I do suggest getting Gribbins' excellent book out of the library.)
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