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Oh crumbs! Hadron Collider breaks down

by Babel-Fish | November 6, 2009 at 09:05 pm

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Of course the conspiracy theorist will now be saying stupid things...

Some physicists have said that time-travelling particles from the future could be damaging the machine in an attempt to thwart any experiments.

But could this be localized sabotage by a loony tune physicist or maybe an activist trained a bird to drop the bread on the Hadron Collider high voltage instillation, any thing is possible if one is a conspiracy theorist.

It's one of the most expensive and technologically-complex machines in the world, but that didn't prevent the Large Hadron Collider from coming a cropper thanks to our feathered friends.

The £4.4 billion 'God Machine' overheated after a passing bird dropped a piece of bread into a high voltage installation which was powering a cooling unit.

Scientists looking into a failure of the cryogenic cooling plant found a piece of baguette had caused the malfunction.

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Hugh Askew

at 05:46 on November 7th, 2009

"The £4.4 billion 'God Machine' overheated after a passing bird dropped a piece of bread into a high voltage installation which was powering a cooling unit."

That is frightening! What next, sabotage by jello flinging monkeys?