timesonline.co.uk - 17 days ago
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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 helium leak stymied the project in its first ...
popsci.com - 18 days ago
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popsci.com —
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 ...
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Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large ...
theregister.co.uk - 18 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
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A Chunk of Baguette Stalled the LHC?
Physics and Physicists —
OK, this is way too ridiculous that you just can't make it up. Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva noticed that the system’s carefully monitored temperatures were creeping up. Further investigation into the failure of a cryogenic cooling plant revealed an unusual impediment. A piece of crusty bread had paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit. Oy vey!!! Luckily, this isn't anything major, just a minor setback. But really, now small things like this will ...
Science & the Public: Large Hadron Collider suffers carb attack
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Efforts to get the Large Hadron Collider up and running just encountered a temporary snag, reports yesterday's online edition of The Times of London. A crusty chunk of bread “paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit.” That cryogenic facility, guarded by high-security fences, is designed to super-chill the LHC to temperatures approaching absolute zero. And the official explanation for the out-of-place chunk of starch? “Nobody knows,” a spokewoman for the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva told ...
LHC: toast
Dynamics of Cats —
The cause was quickly established - a bird apparently dropped a piece of baguette on a high voltage cooling unit - conjectures that it was thrown out of a passing airplane are clearly false: you can't get actual edible french bread on airplanes. ...
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Cosmic Variance —
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.
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