{"id":1119,"date":"2009-10-15T00:11:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2009-10-15T00:11:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:11:48","slug":"is-this-really-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Is this really physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiverse\">multiverse<\/a>. Then came <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boltzmann_brain\">Boltzmann brains<\/a>. Now here&#8217;s another intriguing idea: the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider project in the 1990s and last year&#8217;s failure of one of the Large Hadron Collider&#8217;s magnets at CERN are just two manifestations of manifest bad luck brought about by the fact that the Higgs particle simply cannot be discovered; that its discovery at any time in the future propagates backwards in time, causing events that prevent its discovery in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>An intriguing idea, though not precisely original, as something much like it was already published in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_G._Cramer\">John Cramer<\/a>&#8216;s excellent science fiction novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Einstein%27s_Bridge_%28book%29\">Einstein&#8217;s Bridge<\/a>. And when I say intriguing, I mean intriguing&#8230; as the basis of a science fiction story. But as the basis of a scientific paper? Another adjective comes to my mind&#8230; appalling.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1119' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was the multiverse. Then came Boltzmann brains. Now here&#8217;s another intriguing idea: the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider project in the 1990s and last year&#8217;s failure of one of the Large Hadron Collider&#8217;s magnets at CERN are just two manifestations of manifest bad luck brought about by the fact that the Higgs particle <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1119' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}