God Awful Things

You remember how Higgs Boson particles are traveling back through time to prevent their discovery due to their abhorrent nature?

Well… it’s happened again! [Discovery.com]

This may sound like a real downer, especially after the flurry of recent successes – from a thrilling start-up to most powerful particle collisions ever achieved — but it’s hardly surprising.

Although it might be tempting to think the LHC is somehow “cursed” (or that time-traveling Higgs bosons from the future are sabotaging any attempt at discovering this elusive particle), this is what happens at the frontier of physics.

The LHC is a revolutionary piece of kit, only one will ever be built and the keenest physicist minds are trying to make this complex machine work.

“The standard phrase is that the LHC is its own prototype,” Dr. Steve Myers, director of the particle smasher, told the BBC today. “We are pushing technologies towards their limits.”