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Higgs Bosons from the future are messing about at LHC

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Posted on: October 13, 2009 5:31 AM, by Selva

They are already here, they are amidst us, they zip through our heads affecting LHC funding, they come from future and cunningly prevent their production at LHC by affecting the present. Meet Bosons from the future.

So, this in short, is the paper by two physicists discussed in this NY Times article.

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."

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an "anti-miracle."

You might think that the appearance of this theory is further proof that people have had ample time -- perhaps too much time -- to think about what will come out of the collider, which has been 15 years and $9 billion in the making.

And that last sentence speaks of truth. The paper smells a lot like an elaborate hoax. You can read a take down with the nutty bits from the paper quoted at A Quantum Diaries Survivor.

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