![]() Nielsen is well-qualified in this tradition. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." But craziness has a fine history in a physics that talks routinely about cats being dead and alive at the same time and about anti-gravity puffing out the universe.Īs Niels Bohr, Nielsen's late countryman and one of the founders of quantum theory, once told a colleague: "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The theory was greeted on some blogs with comparisons to Harry Potter. Sure, it's crazy, and CERN should not and is not about to mortgage its investment to a coin toss. ![]() If the outcome was sufficiently unlikely, say drawing the one spade in a deck with 100 million hearts, the machine would either not run at all, or only at low energies unlikely to find the Higgs. ![]() Nielsen and Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a "card-drawing" exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future. At CERN, the beat goes on: Last weekend the French police arrested a particle physicist who works on one of the collider experiments, on suspicion of conspiracy with a North African wing of al-Qaeda. After all, most big science projects, including the Hubble Space Telescope, have gone through a period of seeming jinxed. He agreed that skepticism would be in order. Nielsen called the incident a "funny thing that could make us to believe in the theory of ours."
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