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      <title>The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Jasper Fforde walk into a bar...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html

The paragraph that caused me to laugh was this one:

Dr. Nielsen and Dr. 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. 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.

As soon as I read this, I thought (a la 'Lost in a Good Book'), &quot;Why not just have a jar of rice &amp; lentils on hand, instead of a deck of cards with 100,000,001 cards?&quot;

Fforde should have received some credit on the papers published about this! :)]]></description>
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