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Re:ATLAS sees first direct evidence of light-by-light scatte... by petters on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:26PM (#15031075)
Imagine trying to find that bug.

Finally, after an enormous effort being able to tell your manager that the error is in the space-time of the universe.

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Re:ATLAS sees first direct evidence of light-by-light scatte... by carapace on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:15PM (#15040483)
Riiight?

It reminds me of something I read about the search for what we would now call "violations of conservation of energy". Scientists kept coming up with more experiments to try to show this phenomenon, but none of them worked. Eventually they were forced to conclude that that's just the way it is:

"A perfect conspiracy is a law of nature."

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