because everyone loves the large hadron collider

[rm]

I'll just link you to this gem from tanuki_green:
http://tanuki-green.livejournal.com/299259.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html (and hey, in the NYT)

Short version? Two camps of physicists hate each other. So one camp theorizes as a theoretical actual contribution to the academic work that the reason the LHC is broken is because the universe's powers that be hate the other camp of physicists and sent the particle the LHC is trying to discover into the future so that the project will fail.

Yeah, really.

Stuff this cracktacular makes me want to love physics.

Comments

[woogledesigns.livejournal.com]

It is SUCH a Steven Moffat idea!

[weirdquark]

In LEXX, there was a group led by a theoretical physicist trying to sabotage the LHC because the physicist had realized that the discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle would collapse the earth into a small, pea-sized object*. (Having failed to do anything to the LHC, the group switched to trying to contact alien life so they could leave the planet before this happened.)

* And was totally correct that this would happen, as apparently, all planets in the LEXX-verse at the stage Earth currently is at are in danger of destroying themselves through war or discovering the Higgs-Boson particle.