This is AWESOME.
Really.
Those of you who can't get the NYTimes, it's an article about a couple of physicists who have hypothesized that the Higgs boson (one of the last not-yet-discovered elemental particles in the Standard Model) might be so unlikely -- or so dangerous, or whatever (I believe the phrase was "abhorred by reality") that any projects to discover it will be sabotaged by their own success.
Literally. The later success of the Higgs creates a backward ripple in time to prevent itself from happening. Hence the cancellation of the SSC in the US, and the famous "random breakdown" last year at CERN . . . for example.
They have apparently proposed a way to test this hypothesis.
They're sort of kidding, but only sort of.
And one of these guys is regarded as a founder of string theory.
And I can hardly wait.
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7 comments:
Time Traveling FTW!!!
Well, take that tachyon! You're not the only time traveling particle now, bitch.
The paper won't come up. Not that I would have understood anything if it had.
The NYT writer thought he'd be clever because the actual Vonnegut book about the theoretical non-linearity of time was Slaughterhouse-5.
He jumped sideways to The Sirens of Titan to throw a teleological spanner in the ontological works.
...omg...would have been reading your blog forever ago if I knew you did blog...
...I just gotta say...you are the BEST Star Wars novelist I have read...and I've read ALOT of them...
"Shatterpoint" is the best Clone Wars book...so glad someone actually decided to make one of the most interesting Jedi their main character...LOVED it...
And...I am in the middle of Revenge of the Sith right now...it's fabulous. One of my favorite things about it is when you did that "This is Anakin Skywalker:"...I LOVE those...
You are the kind of scifi author that I want to be...which is what I want to do...be a writer...
Very cool.
Will be using "Look, we did Suceeced---Universe just time-travelled 'cause that wasn't meant to be" argumentation whenever possible from now on (once this week so far).
Different topic, everybody check out (haven't seen it posted here before):
The TVtropes.org entry on The Acts of Caine.
Seems a product of Love. Even spoilers are hidden.
Had to smile throughout the article.
I love tvtropes, and have read that page many times.
A Terminator-esque particle that tries to stop itself from being created?
Awesome.
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