Oops.
On 19 September 2008, during powering tests of the main dipole circuit in Sector 3-4 of the LHC, a fault occurred in the electrical bus connection in the region between a dipole and a quadrupole, resulting in mechanical damage and release of helium from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel.
What’s a multi-billion dollar international project without a few melted superconducting magnets?
Although “Higgs Boson Particle to be observed on/before 31 Dec 2009″ only fell to 40.0 on Intrade after all this. Seems awfully high since they’re not even plugging this thing back in until next spring.
October 20th, 2008 - 7:54 pm
Is this a long way of saying that the Large Hardon Collider had whiskey dick?
October 20th, 2008 - 8:21 pm
Yeah, that sounds about right.