Does the Higgs boson not want to be found?

NYTimes.com: Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with CERN's Large Hadron Collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a man who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Nielsen and Ninomiya put this idea forward in a series of papers: "Test of Influence from Future in Large Hadron Collider: A Proposal" and "Search for Effect of Influence from Future in Large Hadron Collider," posted on the physics website arXiv.org.

According to the so-called standard model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.

"It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck," Nielsen told the New York Times in an e-mail.