Posted on 09/25/2008 1:50:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The news that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has shut down until spring 2009 due to a technical failure, has not come as a surprise to some scientists, who say that such a glitch in the giant machine was expected.
The LHC is the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy.
The LHC circulated its first particle beams on 10 September 2008, but a few days later had to suspend operations due to equipment failure, when a faulty connection between two magnets triggered a shutdown which will delay its operation for two months.
Owing to the already planned winter shutdown, the collider will not be operational again until the spring of 2009.
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Dangerous Science - People trying to play God.
So, like what’s the worse that could happen?
Guess the answers to the secrets of the Universe and Creation will have to wait until the plumbers arrive.
They don’t want to tell us the truth: A baby black hole ate part of their machine.
You don't know how right you are. Here is the webcam video of LHC accident...
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