Let's Read: Nielsen and Ninomiya (2007)'s backward causation, LHC, and the end of mathematics

I considered writing a blog because it's better than writing things on the wood paper, which is hard to search, even more prone to be forgotten than electronic writing, and almost impossible to be read by anyone but me.

I mean, there's a slight chance that my papers will get buried by volcanic ash and become dug up by future archeologists (like the scrolls in the Pompei library), while there's pretty much no hope of any server surviving such a treatment, but that's too unlikely to be considered a valid argument for using wood paper.

Today we write about LHC, SSC, and Nielsen and Ninomiya's crazy proposal in 2008 about why LHC shut itself down. Then it digresses to a depressing thought about the ends of scientific and mathematical fields.