Sounds like the makings of an interesting movie.
The endpoint of the 17-mile tunnel:
If they don’t want to hunt for Higgs bosons anymore, I know where there’s a plentiful source of bogons that they can study.
Bosons? This Thread Is Worthless Without Pictures!
Far out man!
More likely is that the Higgs boson doesn’t even exist and they’ll have to throw out everything they currently believe to be ‘true’ and start over...
This guy needs more human contact so he won't have to channel satan.
Hmmm....so they’re sending Higgsy Moran to enforce the rules?
Q: When will the Hadron Collider become operational?
A: When Higgs fly...
(A FReeper on another thread piqued my interest)
http://www.around.com/chaos.html
Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working in science. It makes strong claims about the universal behavior of complexity. The first chaos theorists, the scientists who set the discipline in motion, shared certain sensibilities. They had an eye for pattern, especially pattern that appeared on different scales at the same time. They had a taste for randomness and complexity, for jagged edges and sudden leaps. Believers in chaos—and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists—speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts: quarks, chromosomes, or neurons. They believe that they are looking for the whole.
Could it be that the thing has design problems, is malfunction prone, and those connected with it are too ashamed to admit this in public?
Well, strange things happen when you enter the realm of quantum mechanics.
Perhaps Schrödinger’s Cat is responsible for this strange phenomenon.
OH good grief. And dragons live off the flat edge of the earth.....
Duplicate post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361728/posts
When is now Ping.
These guys seem to be in favor of an impersonal universe attempting to kill its own grandfather. Potentially good Science Fiction but it reminds me of an earlier speculation about how astronomic observations may actually decrease the potential lifespan of the universe. Sometimes you think that working on the edges of the known causes the loosening of the bounds of rational thought!
Hey, if you guys don’t want the thing any more, give my the scrap metal and I’ll get rid of it for you.
The LHC is a can’t lose project.
Just as important if they find evidence of the Higgs, or not.
They won’t be able to see tracks from the higgs, it will come apart into other elementary particles almost instantly. They will see tracks from smaller particles created as the higgs destructs. Four large particle detectors will be watching for the particles thrown off from the higgs.
Collider Ping!!