An American Physics Student in England tipped me off to the “Hunt the Higgs” card game, in which players attempt to match pairs of card, where the validity and value of the matches is based on their likelihood at finding the Higgs boson. More info on the game here.
Someone in the comments section pointed out a link to an arXiv paper that proposes using a card mechanism for tuning parameters of the LHC, based on the idea that the Higgs “seeks” to avoid its own production (at least according to the linked article) and will cause a failure at the LHC.
We propose an experiment which consists of pulling a card and use it to decide restrictions on the running of L.H.C. at CERN, such as luminosity, beam energy, or total shut down. The purpose of such an experiment is to look for influence from the future, backward causation. Since L.H.C. shall produce particles of a mathematically new type of fundamental scalars, i.e. the Higgs particles, there is potentially a chance to find hitherto unseen effects such as influence going from future to past, which we suggest in the present paper.
Anyway, check out the comments on those articles for some people much, much, much, more knowledgeable than me. This blog has some pretty good comments on the paper; but I’m pretty sure the original authors are having some laughs at our expense. 
(Related concepts: Boltzmann brain, Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle)
