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Given the limited information, one should not jump into conclusions. Higgs might have been a victim of a set-up: it is odd that two British physicists get arrested in Buenos Aires one after another in such similar circumstances. But, maybe, we should pose ourselves the question whether there exists a deeper relationship between the cocaine trade and theoretical particle physics? The recent dramatic events (and some of the particle physics literature too) certainly make such a relationship plausible.
I will update on this story as soon as new facts come to life.
Evening update: This article is an April Fools joke, one in a very bad taste as typical for this blog. Consequently, the current head count of 1 theoretical particle physicist in Argentinian jails remains up to date. So far. On the other hand, I think the idea of smuggling cocaine in plush models of elementary particles is absolutely brilliant :-)
26 comments:
Incredible. Poor fellow.
It'll be the first time in history the Nobel prize medal is being sent to jail ;-)
Some people don't actually find April Fools' Day amusing, you know.
-P.H.
Happy April fools' day!
Could there be a correlation or even a causal link between today's date "April 1st" and the content of this blog post? ;-)
Good one for April fool's day...
Obviously the blokes of Cambridgeshire cannot escape to Brazil or Paraguay after losing the cold war in aether physics. The rule of the laws of Heisenberg will eventually find them all- if our covert variables probe finer in the collider and the Planck map survey.
L. Edgar Otto
Fool's day stories with people ain't nice
Yet, it is April 1st...
April Fool's...nice trick, Jester!
Will they put him in the same cell with Frampton?
It's April fool. But ...?
According to the police officer, P. Higgs is accused for having broken symmetry for the sake of patching massless and unrealistic theory.
Darn, this is not true !!!
When will physicists finally learn to stay away from countries like Argentina, which have no functioning legal system but are driven by corruptnes and immorality instead?
Now, international physics and more general scientific organisations should really do soemthing about these Argentinian rascals!
Dilaton
Oh LOL, I did not consider the date :-D
Bazinga ?
Dilaton
Not funny at all, really.
Come on: it's a joke!
How's it possible that one gets fooled into unknowingly carrying cocaine on a plane?
Paul F.
Xaxaxaxa what a joke!
Jester,
Your sense of humor is brilliant. Please don't be excessively apologetic, it's April Fool's day and people ought to loosen up...
Smile gentlemen, life is too short to take everything in a most serious note!
Was I apologetic? Sorry, i didn't mean to ;-)
"This article is an April Fools joke, one in a very bad taste as typical for this blog".
Sounds apologetic to me...
More on the Higgs story : The Novel Committee decided to remove both P.H. and P.F. from the list of Nobel Prize contenders, and proposes to name the recently discovered particle the Brout-Englert boson... The Moriond organizers support this measure in an enthusiastic way. A prominent british physicist retorted "B & E never mentioned the existence of a physical scalar resonance. We should name it the X boson". The Fermilab management supports this initiative.
Peter Higgs admitted he had a tiny amount of that matter for personal use. However, he was not able to explain how a large mass, around 1.25 kg according to Argentinian officers, could appear from such a vanishing quantity.
1.25 kg coco... please don't say the number didn't arouse ANY suspition!
Is 1.25 kg the mass of the Higgsino ????
The real WTF is the fact that cocaine (as well as many other naturally occurring substances) is illegal to own.
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