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    Published Date:   28 October 2009 

         

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  A LARGE great white shark measuring up to 20ft long is on the prowl off a popular Australian beach, according to officials.
  

   

  
• Bite marks on the mauled shark suggest it was at least six metres long
  
  Swimmers were warned to stay out of the water off Stradbroke Island, in Queensland, after the shark mauled another smaller great white which had been hooked on a baited drum line.
  
  The 10ft great white was almost bitten in half.
  
  The fictional shark in the blockbuster Jaws was estimated to be just 5ft longer. A picture of the blood-splattered great white – with huge bite marks on either side of its body – has sent shock waves across Australia.
  
  Fisheries minister Tim Mulherin said: "A three metre-plus great white was killed off Stradbroke Island, near Brisbane, in the last few days.
  
  "When the contractor pulled in the dead shark he was alarmed by what he saw. Massive bite marks, with a radius of 50cm, had carved off huge chunks of flesh.
  
  "These bite marks had the distinctive triangular shape that indicated it must have been another great white.
  
  "The experts believe it would have taken a great white at least six metres long to cause this kind of damage."
  
  The great white shark, the most dangerous creature in the sea, was still alive when this spine-chilling picture was taken.

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• Explosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment.
• Is it really nothing more than bad luck or is there something weirder at work? Such speculation generally belongs to the lunatic fringe, but serious scientists have begun to suggest that the frequency of Cern’s accidents and problems is far more than a coincidence.

• At first sight, this theory fits comfortably into the crackpot tradition linking the start-up of the LHC with terrible disasters. The best known is that the £3 billion particle accelerator might trigger a black hole capable of swallowing the Earth when it gets going. Scientists enjoy laughing at this one.

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  This time, however, their ridicule has been rather muted — because the time travel idea has come from two distinguished physicists who have backed it with rigorous mathematics.

   

  What Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, are suggesting is that the Higgs boson, the particle that physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be “abhorrent to nature”.
• What does that mean? According to Nielsen, it means that the creation of the boson at some point in the future would then ripple backwards through time to put a stop to whatever it was that had created it in the first place.

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• Every species experiences the world in a unique way, not only because the senses provide different levels of perception, but due to the way each consciousness interprets the information. We can watch a dog at play, and project our human explanations onto its actions; but in truth, we have no conception of how the animal’s mind really works. We can determine cause and effect in animal behaviour and predict a sequence of events, but we do not know what the creature is actually thinking, nor how it comes to certain conclusions.