08/11/2009

£4bn device foiled by bread...


More news this week from the CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Yep, it's been held up again.
Scientists discovered that one of the cooling units required to keep the device at just above absolute zero (the coldest temperature theoretically possible, or −273.15°C) had failed.

Was it a human error, computer failure, problem with a sensor, sabotage. No.
upon further investigation they found a baguette on a high power installation that powers the cooling device.
As to how it got there?... The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane.”

Maybe you should build a really expensive machine on a scale never before seen to test this theory... or fix the one you already have.


Read the full article here.

Shep

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