It's an interesting theory, but I'm wondering why would this part matter:

Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a "card-drawing" exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future. If the outcome was sufficiently unlikely, say drawing the one spade in a deck with 100 million hearts, the machine would either not run at all, or only at low energies unlikely to find the Higgs.

Anyone?

I got Deja Vu from this headline.

Maybe they should be more worried that particle colliders are mating in the future, and sending their children back in time to kill the LHC, thus preventing their mating.
At least, that's what I understand from this article.

I for one, say we get a constitutional amendment banning homocolider marriage. Its the only way.

I must be in Gobbler's Knob.

Get a brain, boson.

Are Hadrons coming from the future and repeatedly submitting this same story over and over?

Abstruse: Are Hadrons coming from the future and repeatedly submitting this same story over and over?

If you're one who remembers that the loop is happening, you can make any comment you want without any consequences the next time around.

HagarTheHorrible: If you're one who remembers that the loop is happening, you can make any comment you want without any consequences the next time around.



Approves.

What the LHC really seems to be doing is rippling back thorugh time to repeatedly get the same story greenlit every 12 hours on Fark.

I'm reading this Fark thread from my flux capacitor-loaded DeLorean, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

HagarTheHorrible: Abstruse: Are Hadrons coming from the future and repeatedly submitting this same story over and over?

If you're one who remembers that the loop is happening, you can make any comment you want without any consequences the next time around.



Approves.

Andromeda: What I heard on the physicist gossip grapevine is that the LHC isn't working because after it broke last year they discovered a fundamental design flaw that'll cost another few billion to fix as right now it'll never get up to the promised energy levels. No more than a rumor yet but I heard it from a few directions, so there might be some truth to the matter.

This is what you guys gossip about?

Andromeda: This makes my brain hurt, and I'm in physics grad school!

What I heard on the physicist gossip grapevine is that the LHC isn't working because after it broke last year they discovered a fundamental design flaw that'll cost another few billion to fix as right now it'll never get up to the promised energy levels. No more than a rumor yet but I heard it from a few directions, so there might be some truth to the matter.

That's the gist of it, I believe. IIRC, some of the magnets aren't working properly.

Nilatir: HagarTheHorrible: Abstruse: Are Hadrons coming from the future and repeatedly submitting this same story over and over?

If you're one who remembers that the loop is happening, you can make any comment you want without any consequences the next time around.

[O'Neill]

Approves.

Good episode

"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."

Great quote.

Nilatir: HagarTheHorrible: Abstruse: Are Hadrons coming from the future and repeatedly submitting this same story over and over?

If you're one who remembers that the loop is happening, you can make any comment you want without any consequences the next time around.


Approves.

Good lord, another repeat?

doomfistinc: Nilatir: HagarTheHorrible: Abstruse: Are Hadrons coming from the future and repeatedly submitting this same story over and over?

If you're one who remembers that the loop is happening, you can make any comment you want without any consequences the next time around.

[O'Neill]

Approves.

Good episode


Has to be one of my top SG-1 episodes. You even got to see Teal'c enjoying himself. The Bike through the corridor was classic.

I don't get it. Higgs particles imbue mass, thus they're everywhere and always were. The LHC isn't so much creating Higgs as hoping to isolate a few.

Were we this scared when we isolated photons or electrons, or force carrying particles?

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.

My brain just inflated and imploded simultaneously. Why are physicists under the assumption that because you saved your grandfather from being hit by a bus it's not a paradox?

That's like the whole Terminator series with John Connor sending Kyle Reese back in time to save his mother, but in doing so Kyle ends up becoming his father, therefore creating a paradox in itself.

For all we know saving your grandfather might or might not create a paradox.

Instead of engaging the tractor beam, depressurize the main shuttle bay, and we'll be fine.

Wait, did you say boson?

I see what the mods are doing there. Maybe these greenlights are being greenlit from the future?

And you'd think threads like these are the perfect time to use the 'Boobies' filter if you have an opportunity to do it...

Activate the Omega 13.

Maybe it really is the God particle

MuadDib: What the LHC really seems to be doing is rippling back thorugh time to repeatedly get the same story greenlit every 12 hours on Fark.

What the LHC really seems to be doing is rippling back thorugh time to repeatedly get another few billion in additional funding every few years or so.

FTFY.

How about we just pull the plug on this one?

I've got your God particle right here.

Its like this story traveled back in time and is its own grandfather.

LegacyDL : My brain just inflated and imploded simultaneously. Why are physicists under the assumption that because you saved your grandfather from being hit by a bus it's not a paradox?

Your grandfather being hit by a bus (before having your parent) is a paradox, because if he were hit and killed by a buss, he wouldn't have had any children to sire you and you wouldn't have been able to go back in time to save him from dying.

Whereas, saving your grandfather from getting hit by a bus is not a paradox, because the very fact that you exist to save him is evidence that the bus did not kill him. So by saving him, you're not certain of creating any paradox (all you're doing is preventing him some injury, not saving his life)*

/unless, of course, your father is a peeping tom, and by saving him, you get hit instead. And then, your mother falls in love with you as she's nursing you back to health.

/Some posit that traveling back in time along your own timeline is impossible. So that if you were to travel back in time and kill your grandfather (creating a paradox in the traditional view of the universe) you would actually just be killing your grandfather in an alternate timeline that's different from the one you reside on, while your grandfather on your own timeline happily lives on to sire one of your parents.

Damn this is the 3rd repeat of this story in 3 days... Really now, Mods.

and the higgs bosun particle said "Ill be back"

It is the Duke Nukem of colliders.

Andromeda: What I heard on the physicist gossip grapevine is that the LHC isn't working because after it broke last year they discovered a fundamental design flaw that'll cost another few billion to fix as right now it'll never get up to the promised energy levels. No more than a rumor yet but I heard it from a few directions, so there might be some truth to the matter.

No.

1. The LHC is only about US$6B to begin with. A few billion more? What, the cost will double?
2. They include a contingency budget in all of these for relatively minor issues like what happened.
3. There are many bitter people who weren't listened to with an axe to grind to exaggerate every problem.
4. When oversight is insane and multinational, practically nothing stays out of the press.

For fark's sake, do the mods not even try anymore?

The future LHC has seemingly become self aware and is now greenlighting threads about itself.

Fano: dagger75: Its like this story traveled back in time and is its own grandfather.

Bah. All you zombies can dispute that.

...Dad?