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In a series of papers (Nielsen et al. 1996; Nielsen 1989) Holger B. Nielson and Masao Ninomiya present a reformulation of physical theory which if correct would have paradoxical consequences for the long awaited production of a Higgs boson. According to this theory any attempt to produce a Higgs boson—a prime goal of the recently built Large Hadron Collider—is subject to anomalous disruptions from the future that are directed toward preventing this production.
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The Lagrangian possesses an imaginary part as well as the customary real part. The addition makes little difference (it tends to be self-cancelling) except near the Big Bang or in the vicinity of Higgs boson production. The value of this Lagrangian “pre-arranges” the initial conditions of the Universe for complete avoidance or severe restriction of this production.
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The future constraint does not absolutely preclude Higgs boson production but severely limits it. The argumentation in this article can be recast in terms of avoiding production of all but a very few Higgs bosons, replacing “no-boson” by “few-bosons”, etc.
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Refinements to the card experiment have been proposed which give the future constraint other more nuanced messages to send. Since the arrangement described above reflects the essential feature of the experiment—the retrocausal message—we disregard these further complications.
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It is only under assumption of the Higgs anomaly that the card game is a Newcomb game. In practice, drawing a blank card (empty first box) would be taken to disconfirm the Higgs anomaly and indicate that we were not playing a Newcomb game after all. In this case it would be folly to “cooperate”. This makes the Card Experiment even trickier than the Open Box game since with the latter, one is sure at least to be playing a Newcomb game.
References
Nielsen, H.B., Froggatt, C. (1996). Influence from the Future, arXiv:hep-ph/9607375v1.
Nielsen, H. B., & Ninomiya, M. (2006). Future dependent initial conditions from imaginary part in lagrangian, arXiv:hep-ph/0612032v2.
Nielsen, H. B., & Ninomiya, M. (2007). Search for effect of influence from future in large Hadron Collider, arXiv:0707.1919v3 [physics.gen-ph].
Nielsen, H. B., & Ninomiya, M. (2008). Test of effect from future in large Hadron Collider, a proposal, arXiv:0802.2991v2 [physics.gen-ph].
Nielsen, H. B., & Ninomiya, M. (2009). Card game restriction in LHC can only be successful!, arXiv:0910.0359v1 [physics.genph].
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Eckhardt, W. (2013). The Hadron Collider Card Experiment. In: Paradoxes in Probability Theory. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5140-8_7
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