Does the Large Hadron Collider create its own bad luck?

Entertaining, but completely non-sensical. How does the universe know that the agency responsible for the creation of the abhorrent Higgs boson is the LHC. This is a huge philosophical question, of what "is" the LHC.<p>And even more goofy, how could it sabotage <i>plans</i> for a collider. Surely there's no concrete path of causation for the universe to cause a collider project to be de-funded. That's just silly.

If this was true we could do something much more interesting than shuffle cards and decide not to turn it on. We'd basically have an infinite improbability engine at our disposal. We could declare that unless bricks of gold spontaneously appear in front of us, we'll turn it on. If they do appear, we wait a day and repeat.

<i>In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear.</i><p>Media outlets are still doing this? Really? Don't you have some celebrity affair to cover or something instead?

There is always the classic test to see if the large hadron collider has destroyed the world yet.<p><a href="http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/</a>