Quantum physics is notoriously counter-intuitive and difficult to grasp, which is perhaps why the subject is often invoked to explain other seemingly counter-intuitive and difficult-to-grasp areas of life.
But that doesn’t mean that wheeling out the subject necessarily makes any sense.
So here’s to the former Bishop of Southwark, Thomas Frederick ‘Tom’ Butler, whose comments on the Thought for the Day slot on BBC Radio 4 this morning (at about 1.47) are a classic of the genre.
The bishop begins, for some reason, by talking about the search for the Higgs boson (or Higgs “bos’un” as he irritatingly puts it) at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which, he reveals to the world, “will shortly be reactivated”. (I presume he means restarted after the scheduled winter shut-down as the scientists on the machine have happily been taking data for more than two years now.)
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