Hadron

Hadron

Faster than light quarks
Spears says time travel is real
Bring the Fritos bag


This one is a little late, and terribly early at the same time. How apropos for a haiku about time travel. You all remember the video of a drugged up Brit-Brit saying that time travel is real? Okay, so there's only a tiny bit about time travel at the end—most of the rest is her saying "HUH?" in a very annoying manner and shaking her head like some sort of quixotic duck, but that's how this haiku began: Brit knew what was what long before anyone else did. Fast forward about five years when the scientists manning the Large Hadron Collider discover that time travel may be possible, but only for a tiny particle called the Higgs singlet. Well, harumph I say! If Britney was able to discern that time travel was possible five long years before the people in Geneva did, I am getting myself ready to be shot into the future. Or better yet, the not-too-distant past. Specifically 1986. And I will have my Fritos bag at the ready, as an homage to the corn-chip loving songstress, and probably because time travel will make me hungry.