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On committing to playing random card games to determine the future operation of the LHC as a mechanism for detecting reverse causality by a Higgs-abhoring Nature … generated by a Higgs-abhoring Nature, as seen by the failure of all potential Higgs-producing supercolliders. Why would one play card games to determine whether or not to produce a Higgs boson? So as to avoid the “accidental” failure modes that we have apparently observed so far, which might result in loss of human life.
The article linked above describes a series of papers on reverse causality. They postulate that some natural aversion by the Universe to the presence of Higgs bosons has led to the continued failure of the Large Hadron Collider, the bankruptcy of the Superconducting SuperCollider project, and any other projects that might conceivably have produced a Higgs. They use a quirky choice of mathematics and grammar; but the authors are no cranks. They are Holger-Bech Nielsen, one of the early creators of string theory, and Masao Ninomiya, one of the editors of International Journal of Modern Physics A — certainly respected in the right context, though given a certain distance today.
Fascinating, and an excellent candidate for Not Even Wrong. Of course readers of this blog recall that after another couple of setbacks, the LHC will discover Higgs particles on December 21, 2012 .