BBC News: Hadron Collider halted for months

[Occulus]

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The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says.

Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure.

But a Cern spokesman said damage to the £3.6bn ($6.6bn) particle accelerator was worse than anticipated.

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Article says a quench occurred, causing 100 of the LHC magnets to heat up by as much as 100C. Warmup, repairs, and cooldown = a couple months' wait.

[vanlassie]

1. I Hate It When That Happens....

[corkhead]

2. so now the only remaining potential black hole we face is on wall st.

[comrade snarky]

3. Dang...

Ah well, it's a slightly complicated piece of machinery and this is just a short delay in the long term.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. That's one expensive quench -- lost a tonne of liquid helium.

That would have been just a little too damned exciting to witness.

[Occulus]

5. Yeah, I had to read that part twice n/t