10.14.2009 11:04 pm/Matthew Gipp

A Quantum Humdinger

The short, accident-marred life of the Large Hadron Collider has some physicists suggesting a real humdinger of an explanation: the Higgs boson, the theoretical particle that scientists are hoping to produce with the collider’s help, is “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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