number 61

The Higgs Boson, Clarified

Seed‘s eloquent description of the Higgs boson theory for the Large Hadron Collider’s string of bad luck:

Essentially, the theory is that the Higgs is so destructive that no possible future universe of ours contains one. Thus, any effort to find the Higgs in the present is doomed to failure.

Now that’s the sort of concision I was looking for the first time.