The Large Hadron Collider’s woes have taken a faintly comic turn after the huge particle accelerator got broken by a piece of bread dropped by a passing bird.
I was going to ask how many crazy episodes like this they'd need to start thinking maybe something in the Universe doesn't want them doing this, but I see they're already thinking that's a possibility, with this quote: "The succession of technical problems the LHC has suffered has led some physicists, apparently in all seriousness, to claim that it is being sabotaged by time-travelling particles from its own future. "
In a theory reminiscent of the time travelling film Back to the Future, the theoretical physicists Holger Nielsen, from Denmark, and Masao Ninomiya, from Japan, have concluded that its discoveries could be so "abhorrent to nature" that they are coming back to stop their own creation.
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"It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said.
He said that his theories may even provide a "model for God" who "rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them”.
According to Popular Science, "The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator."
One has to wonder what in heck they were thinking to leave this outdoor section of machinery unprotected. Instead of dropping a piece of bread, the bird responsible could have,... um,.. dropped,... something else much messier and harder to clean up.
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In a theory reminiscent of the time travelling film Back to the Future, the theoretical physicists Holger Nielsen, from Denmark, and Masao Ninomiya, from Japan, have concluded that its discoveries could be so "abhorrent to nature" that they are coming back to stop their own creation.
...
"It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said.
He said that his theories may even provide a "model for God" who "rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them”.
Quote above from: The much-delayed and maligned Large Hadron Collider has been hit by its most outlandish claim to date - it is being sabotaged by its own future.
Okay, now YOU decide whether these people are actually serious or just seriously deranged or seriously lacking in serious things to do!
One has to wonder what in heck they were thinking to leave this outdoor section of machinery unprotected. Instead of dropping a piece of bread, the bird responsible could have,... um,.. dropped,... something else much messier and harder to clean up.