popsci.com - 15 days ago
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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 ...
timesonline.co.uk - 15 days ago
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timesonline.co.uk —
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. The 4 billion particle-collider faced more than a year of delays after a ...
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Large Hadron Collider stalled again... thanks to chunk ...
theregister.co.uk - 15 days ago
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theregister.co.uk —
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 ...
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Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette
space.com - 18 days ago
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space.com —
For the past quarter century, dark matter has
been a mystery we've just had to live with.
But the time may be getting close when science can finally unveil what this befuddling stuff is that makes up most of the matter in the universe. Dark matter ...
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Astronomers Aim to Grasp Mysterious Dark Matter
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Bird baguette-bombs and overheats the LHC
The Reference Frame —
... poor Allah do? Well, he can always use a bird.
And if you were Allah, what would you tell the bird to do so that it won't be immediately obvious that Allah is the culprit? It's simple. Just tell the bird to bomb the collider with a baguette.
While the previous stories may sound as a sequence of silly jokes, believe me or not, the overheated LHC from the graph was caused by a recent drop of a baguette by a bird: The Register, Popular ScienceSuch incidents will delay things by three days. When ...
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... A bird shut down the Large Hadron Collider by dropping a piece of bread on it. The bird species was not specified (or perhaps even known), but the article oddly chooses an oystercatcher to represent it. ...
LHC Shut Down By Wayward Baguette Dropped by Bird
Discoblog —
In truly French fashion, the Large Hadron Collider has shut down by… a baguette. Zut alors!
According to Popular Science:
[A] bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
The overheating shouldn’t postpone the LHC’s ...
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