Large Hadron Collider is 'being sabotaged from the future'

[FancyPants]

Even if it doesn't work out they can always make an awesome amusement park ride out of it.

A gravitron that won't only make you lose your lunch, but also the skin off your face.

[FungalFractoids]

Higgs-Bosun strikes again!

GENEVA : THE $6.5 billion machine designed to recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time had to be switched off after a bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into it, causing it to overheat.

As a result, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had to postpone their plans last week to emulate the universe's Big Bang.

The European particle physics laboratory near Geneva launched the LHC in September last year. Physicists hoped to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, or God particle, which gives matter in the universe its mass.

But the LHC, which when running will collide protons travelling at 99.9 per cent of the speed of light, has been out of action since a helium leak caused it to be shut down nine days after its start-up.

The bird dropped bread on a compensating capacitor – where the mains electricity supply enters the collider – cutting power to the LHC during a test run.

[mac]

I have a theory of who is sabotaging the LHC

[FancyPants]

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 bits of a French loaf dropped on an external electrical power supply caused a short circuit.

It triggered fail-safe devices in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that shut down part of the cooling system of the giant experiment to probe the secrets of the universe, CERN said.

The system was restored several hours after the incident.

"The bird escaped unharmed but lost its bread," CERN said in a statement.

"A bird carrying a baguette bread caused a short circuit in an electrical outdoor installation that serves sectors 7-8 and 8-1 of the LHC," it added.

"The knock-on effects included an interruption to the operation of the LHC cryogenics system."

The 27km long particle collider, which runs in a circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border near the city of Geneva, has been plagued by problems since it was briefly started up in September 2008.

CERN said the latest incident was minor and did not affect attempts to restart the accelerator later this month following repairs.

Designed to shed light on the origins of the universe, the LHC at CERN took nearly 20 years to complete and cost $5 billion.

The bird was believed to be an owl.

I thought owls only eat meat? Mice and possums etc?

[ayjay101]

For anyone wondering if the transcendental object at this end of time has a sense of humour, here's your proof.

[devance]

A bat is the mammal got fried on the wrong place at the wrong time time.

But nothing do with batman.

But bats like underground tunnels.

[devance]

It could have been a owl chasing a bat into a smAll vent.

[Slybacon]

Perhaps they should try firing particles in the other direction. The difference between clockwise and anticlockwise may be more important than we once thought <img src="http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

 

If clockwise gets bad luck from the future, then anticlockwise would surely bring good luck from the past

[The Dude]

If clockwise gets bad luck from the future, then anticlockwise would surely bring good luck from the past

 

Hahaha! That makes perfect sense for some tripper logic (much like the initial theory). Throw in some physics formula and long as math equations with all them extra dimensions thrown in and you can call it a scientific hypothesis.. Oooh even a theory!!!

[ballzac]

I hate to burst the bubble, but hadrons travel both clockwise and anticlockwise in the LHC at the same time.

[The Dude]

consider it bursted, you bastid!

now i don't know what to believe!

[ballzac]

Maybe it's being sabotaged from the present?