I've been dying to chime in amongst the raucous of commentary surrounding Dennis Overbye's NYT article "The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate." The bloggosphere has chewed this one up and spit it out a few times, and today, the article came up in a phone conversation between me and a physicist friend.

Is this for real?

...I’m talking about the notion that the troubled 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....