Noclue (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
CERN'S Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No helium leak or dodgy magnets this time, either. The culprit? A speck of bread, which officials believe was once a part of a baguette thought to have been dropped by a low flying bird. I’m just sitting back and waiting for the jokes or one liners to start. But just think of the consequences if it had dropped a low flying turd.
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bird downs atom smasher : Geneva - A peckish bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday. Bits of a French loaf dropped on an external electrical power supply caused a short circuit last week, triggering failsafe devices that shut down part of the cooling system...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is still misfiring. This time a “bit of baguette”, possibly dropped by a passing bird, is suspected of gumming up the works. I am not making this up. Is it just me, but doesn’t it seem like a $7.3 billion machine should have been designed to be baguette-proof? If not, you’re pretty [...]
** Science On Tap... ** (Free subscription) | yesterday
...so says a NY Times piece on the start-up attempts for the Large Hadron Collider, and a new theory pushed by some that the device is doomed or at least jinxed, by the very Higgs boson for which it is searching... this is cosmology gone wild... but, hey, that's almost the normal state for cosmology, so read all about it: http://tinyurl.com/yhh7b6d "...craziness has a fine history in a physics...
GeekPress (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Another freak accident shuts down the Large Hadron Collider : The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator...
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There is a theory that the Large Hadron Collider has had bad luck getting started up, and the US based super colldiing super duperductor was defunded over 10 years ago because the Higgs Boson does not want to be discovered, and has gone back in time (to now) to muck up the process of its own discovery in the future (then). The story is outlined in an article in the New York Times . Read the rest of...
The Register (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
'An impossible machine that could not be built' The Large Hadron Collider - the gigantic underground double-barrelled particle cannon assembled by top boffins deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border - is to start up again "around the 20th" of this month. Not only is the LHC tremendously cool (quite literally) in its own right, it's also the focus of a global hypercomputing grid of tremendous...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The Large Hadron Collider’s woes have taken a faintly comic turn after the huge particle accelerator got broken by a piece of bread dropped by a passing bird. The 27-kilometer (16.8 mile) LHC suffered serious overheating in several sections after the small piece of baguette landed in a piece of equipment on the surface above the accelerator ring. Dr Mike Lamont, the LHC’s Machine Coordinator,...
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/... Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may create doors to other dimensions, according to Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Some people are beginning to think that : The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to...
hello, typepad (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
via www.popsci.com "With freak accident after freak accident piling up over at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched" (Thanks, Leah)
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By Stuart Fox Posted 11.05.2009 The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
• Hadron collider halted again by power cut • Scientists stop testing for relaunch after fowl play It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the...
Cosmic Variance (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Lead paragraph from the Times Online UK about the latest LHC snafu: The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) earlier this week, as reported in The Register. If the LHC had been operational, the machine would have automatically shut down for a couple of days. However, the LHC is still being worked on after the electrical failure and subsequent leak of liquid helium that caused such...
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gustaf_moro | 09/10/2008
Large Hadron Collider - The Time Is Now! CERN's $9 billion, 17-mile long atom smasher was just turned on and we're awaiting reports on how the tests have gone. The Large Hadron Collider did experience "small electrical problems" overnight. However, these were not expected to delay the first test firing at 9:30am CEST . As such, the clockwise and counter-clockwise firing of particles should already...
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