There have been a lot of rather belated reports of the LHC failing due to acausal physics.
This is clearly nonsense.
We have known for a long time that it is most likely due to anthropic selection within a many worlds universe.
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So, I was thinking, where are the cold alien intelligences who ought to be out there, studying us dispassionately, as if we were microbes...?
Well, what if we accidentally killed them all?
No, really.
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I think not...
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"I'm sorry, Teacher, but your homework assignment was so abhorrent to Nature that the Universe caused my dog to eat it after I had completed the work."