For those who missed it,
an article in the NY Times reporting speculation that the problems with the LHC may be due to the Higgs boson preventing it own creation.
Seriously.
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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.
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