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Originally Posted by sjastro
What Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, are suggesting is that the Higgs boson, the particle that physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be “abhorrent to nature”.
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I'm definitely not in the doom-sayers' camp - but Holger Bech Nielsen is my old uni teacher in quantum mechanics. He's quite a character but a true genius, and I'm sure he knows what he's talking about. He is one of the fathers of String Theory, among other things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Bech_Nielsen
This is a wild but interesting idea, very typical of him.
And as he says himself, it's not very likely to be true.