We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
A pair of scientists have posited a far-out theory regarding the Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs-Boson, and the fleetingly-inevitable universal collapse which they believe to be sabotaging tests:
Dr. Nielsen admits that he and Dr. Ninomiya’s new theory smacks of time travel, a longtime interest, which has become a respectable research subject in recent years. While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one.
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“For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.”
- The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
by Dennis Overbye
2009-10-12
“Dennis Over-bye” – apparently he’s written other articles but the name smacks of a bad pun.
I’ve always suspected that the universe was acausal… Given a recent viewing of John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, this dream sequence comes to mind:
How d’ya like your future now, humanity?
who’s that red-head with the bob haircut? fuckin’ nightmare.
That is Lisa S. Blount, an American film and television actress and Oscar-winning producer.