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Oh crumbs! Hadron Collider breaks down
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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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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?