[Rocket Sheep]

Did you see The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2) essay in the NY Times Space and Cosmos section?

“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”

"In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one."


:eek:

[Dawnstorm]

Well, the article doesn't exactly give us the theory, just the pop science interpretation, so it's not really surprising that it sounds like science fiction. Or fantasy, for that matter.

Once you get into the science things tend to humble down. Just like Schrödinger's cat, who's micro, not macro, and thus not a cat.

I shall now posit the theory that if we don't go ahead with the experiments, the effects can't travel back in time, and thus the universe will never be created, which leaves us on the dead side of Schrödinger's cat. I can do weird science as well as any science journalist, can't I?

Seriously, that article wasn't all that informative. The only concrete stuff I get is the names of the scientists.

[mylinar]

Because I have not died yet that is conclusive proof that something from the future is causing me to stay alive, averting dangerous accidents and protecting me.

[Rocket Sheep]

All their saying is, that if the damn thing is waddling like a duck, and quacking like a duck, let's consider the possibility that it might be a bloody duck.

[Chuffalump]

Or, possibly, someone forgot to tighten up a nut....

[Rocket Sheep]

But did they forget on purpose or under influence of a higher cause? Hmmm?

[Bond]

Wouldn't you know it? It looks like I have some scientific support even if tangentially for an idea I proposed in a thread a couple of months back:
An Idea for a Science Fiction Story (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23443)!

[Dawnstorm]

All their saying is, that if the damn thing is waddling like a duck, and quacking like a duck, let's consider the possibility that it might be a bloody duck.

Actually, what they're saying sounds more like:

We've glimpsed a glint in the corner of our eyes, and that glint might just have been a droplet of water, and that droplet of water might just have moved in just the way it would if it were moving down the back of a duck. So let's consider the possibility that there was a duck.

I'm not sure what they really said. The article just plays the "crazy but possibly true" angle and provides little information. If all they have to go on, empirically, is bad luck...

[Rocket Sheep]

Aha! Luck or fate... Hmmmm?

We could go on like this for days! ;)

[mylinar]

Aha! Luck or fate... Hmmmm?

We could go on like this for days! ;)

What is the difference between luck and fate?

Is there a difference?

Zen is good.