Circular Reasoning

or

Chasing Your Own Tail

 

I've written before about how excited scientists are that they think they've discovered the Higgs boson or, as they refer to it, the God particle. I find their discovery quite amusing.

 

It goes something like this.

 

The Higgs boson must exist because if it doesn't, our model of the universe is wrong.

Our model of the universe is correct because the Higgs boson exists.

 

I guess it's never occurred to them that they could be wrong about both the origin of the universe and the Higgs boson.

 

Ahhhh - those kooky scientists! What will they come up with next?