It lifted a 20-ton magnet off its mountings, filling a tunnel with helium gas and forcing an evacuation.
Imagine a crowd of workers emerging from a tunnel with the smoke roiling out behind them, all squeaking "run away" in helium voices.
It appears Fermilab made elementary mistakes in the design of the magnets and their anchors that made them insecure once the system was operational.
The self-esteem factor was off by three orders of magnitude.
Coincidentally, Fermilab stands to gain most from delays at Cern. Its researchers also operate a rival but less powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron.
"I smell a rat, a great big Fermi rat," said the CERN director. (with apologies to George C. Scott)
Fermilab staff are pushing the Tevatron to ever-higher energies hoping that they might find the Higgs boson before the LHC switches on. An LHC researcher said: “Ironically, this delay could be all they need.”
Which Fermilab engineer gets the employee of the year award for this one?
Let’s see.......Magnets are used to simulate the effects of gravity, to direct the SAP and control their directional course, then, how in the Universe, does this simulate the Singularity from which at the time of the “Big Bang”, there was no gravity?
Questions, questions, certain things just require faith.
LOLOLOLOL. Spot on analysis.
(”Helium voices.” LOLOLOLOL)
That was funny..
But I am confused..
“The people working on the test were frightened to death but they were all in a safe place so no-one was hurt.”
How can no one be hurt, yet everyone working there were frightened to death?
The workers then broke out in a spontanious song:
We represent the Lollipop Guild
The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild
And in the name of the Lollipop Guild
We wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land