On the lighter side of science.
I applaud you, nameless faulty solderer. I just hope you and the other saboteurs have something planned for September, lest we all get sucked into a worm hole and wind up in some alien’s petting zoo. Which, I think we can all agree, would — wait, you think they have dinosaurs? Read more here.
Geekologie.com, 20 February 2009.
This is just a really complicated way of saying: Don’t feel bad about the near-constant delays to the LHC, CERN. There is nothing you can do to prevent your multibillion-dollar experiment from failing. Just stop looking for the Higgs boson and you can proceed as normal. Read more here.
Good.is/blogs, 13 October 2009.
And the Article that got us here.
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. 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. Read more here.
New York Times, 12 October 2009.
Hunting of the Quark.
They do not seem to have fixed it yet, so I thought it was time for a poetic update on the quest to resolve all the puzzles of sub-atomic physics – in particular, the question of the Higgs Boson that will explain everything (if it exists). Read more here.
Gulf Daily News, 16 October 2009.
