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.
Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com (via davemorin / mikehudack)
“…otherwise distinguished…”
(via katiebakes)
Unless the terrorists get to it first! However, the most likely explanation is that this is all just an elaborate promotional effort for the final season of Lost.
“…the ‘brilliant and solitary’ physician’s sinister plans…”(via fiatluxemburg) Make that, ‘the brilliant and solitary Higgs boson’s sinister plans’ …
Absalom, Absalom! 