The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Published: 9:53AM GMT 19 Nov 2009 Nine days after the launch a single electrical splice overheated because it had been badly soldered, and disaster struck Photo: PA The 27-kilometre (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...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Question: Did a time-traveling bird sabotage the Collider? Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit? "A bit of baguette," says Mike...
Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird? Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit? "A bit of baguette," says Mike...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit? "A bit of baguette," says Mike Lamont of the control center of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which built and maintains the LHC. Apparently, a passing bird may have dropped the chunk of bread on an electrical substation above the accelerator, causing a power cut. The baguette was removed, power...
Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... a temperature colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit? “A bit of baguette,” says Mike Lamont of the control center of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which built and maintains the LHC. Apparently, a passing bird may have dropped the chunk of bread on an electrical substation above the accelerator, causing a power cut. The baguette was removed, power...
TIME (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit? "A bit of baguette," says Mike Lamont of the control center of CERN, the European Organization...
Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nature beats science: Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber Image: PopSci A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher's subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. Dr Mike Lamont, who works...
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...
Switched (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... because if it had been, the incident would've likely suspended all further activity. Dr. Mike Lamont, who works in the CERN control center, reassured everyone that the LHC's safety net would have been strong enough to withstand the attack, especially in light of its significant upgrade in September. Continue reading Large Hadron Collider Clogged by Bird's Baguette Bomb Large Hadron...
SlashGear (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Large Hadron Collider experienced overheating problems this week after – and we’re not making this up – a bird dropped a piece of bread onto part of the machinery. According to LHC Machine Coordinator Dr Mike Lamont, “a bit of baguette on the busbars” caused temperatures in portions of the system to rise from their regular 1.9 Kelvin to almost 8 Kelvin;...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rex FeaturesScientists have blamed a bird that dropped a "bit of baguette" into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva for a technical fault that emerged this week.The incident caused significant overheating in sections of the particle accelerator's 27km tunnel, The Register reports.LHC machine coordinator Dr Mike Lamont said that the fault had been caused by "a bit of baguette on...
Black Listed News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Source: The 27-kilometer (16.8 mile) 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, said that a “a bit of baguette”, believed to have been dropped by a bird, caused the superconducting magnets to heat up from 1.9 Kelvin (-271.1C)...
