Post #488645 by Limbo Lizard on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 9:19 PM

On 2009-10-16 09:49, little lost tiki wrote:
...They think that by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy
that they can serially measure the results
and walk away unscathed....

But what if something GOES HORRIBLY WRONG!?!?!?

Funny you should mention that. In fact, a series of things have gone wrong, causing setbacks and postponing of the Grand Experiment. This has lead a couple of physicists to posit an interesting hypothesis... that the Collider is being sabotaged by its own future:

"A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather." (The elusive Higgs boson has been dubbed "The God Particle" by some excitable science journalists.)

Hmmm... Lono was a supposedly mythological god-like character, who disappeared over the horizon (the future???), with the expectation that he would return, some day. Is it possible that the mischievous Lono is the Higgs boson, come back to punk those European eggheads, by repeatedly messing up the Large Hadron Collider? Or, has the combination of attempted humor and gin collided at a crossroads, just outside a town called... Incoherence?