• Hadron collider halted again by power cut[br]• Scientists end testing for relaunch after fowl playIt is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the vast bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the machine,causing it to overheat.
Cern, the European particle physics laboratory, and launched the LHC with much fanfare on 10 September final year. Physicists hope to use the collider to prove the existence of the Higgs boson,or God particle, which gives matter in the universe its mass.
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Source: theguardian.com