Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Oh no the Large Hadron Collider is being switched back on th…
Oh no the Large Hadron Collider is being switched back on this weekend. I won’t sleep tonight. Hope a bird drops a baguette in again.
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Large Hadron Collider Damaged By Bird.
The LHC has been damaged by a bird dropping a small piece of a baguette onto the superconducting magnets causing a ‘quench’ situation to occur. A ‘quench’ occurs when the superconducting magnets heat up from around -270C to -265C and lose their superconducting ability. If the ‘quench’ had occurred when the LHC was in full […]