CERN: Damage to new collider forces 2-month halt
AP
20-Sep-2008 (2 comments)

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher — which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month — has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.

Experts have gone into 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its Sept. 10 startup, said James Gillies, spokesman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

"It's too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out," Gillies told The Associated Press.

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shinie head

COLLIDER COLLAPSES !

by shinie head on Sat Sep 20, 2008 07:51 AM PDT

I wonder if the collapse of US financial institutions (and possible dawn of depression in US) had anything to do with it?


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Do NOT make the Higgs Boson

by Shamse Vazir (not verified) on Sun Sep 21, 2008 02:31 PM PDT

This is dangerous business making micro black-holes. People should watch the show Lexx and see what happens to people who try to make the Higgs Boson.


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