On Sept. 18, the news from CERN, the organization that runs the LHC, was that an electrical problem involved with a cooling system caused a helium leak that would keep the mammoth particle accelerator out of commission for a day or so. A couple of days later, the estimate had stretched into two months: The machine would need to be warmed back up, which will take three to four weeks, before a full investigation could be done.
Now the outlook is even more bleak for eager physicists, who have already waited decades for the giant collider to come to fruition, after only a week of tantilizingly successful beam operations.
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October 29, 2009 at 3:49 pm
An interesting theory:
http://www.disinfo.com/2009/10/is-the-large-hadron-collider-being-sabotaged-from-the-future/?sms_ss=facebook