Higgs.... FROM THE FUTURE

[devolutionary]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=2&em

I find this article simultaneously fascinating and hilarious. Anyone out there on my F-List know enough about particle physics or this issue to comment?

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[ect]

I can't stop giggling at the phrase 'Otherwise Distinguished Physicists'

[devolutionary]

That one got both me and my co-worker.

"Distinguished.... except for THIS lunacy. Maybe."

[tenzil]

Well in theory my 15-year-old undergrad degree is in physics... but... honestly it isn't so much a particle physics problem. I mean it's weird but not actually out of the question for the Higgs to have effects backward in time. I dimly remember hearing about other experiments having similarly unintuitive effects.

It would be really weird for the Higgs discovery to have such wide-ranging impacts but not necessarily impossible.

All that said, I really, really like the proposed experiment.

[p_sunshine]

LOL! Awesome.

[tarsus4]

Hi, I was egged on by maroonmd to say something =P