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Large Hadron Collider breaks down

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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:00a.m.

Large Hadron Collider quadrupole magnets for directing proton beams to interact

Large Hadron Collider quadrupole magnets for directing proton beams to interact

The end of the world may have just been delayed a few months - the much touted Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border has broken down.

The LHC aimed to replicate the 'Big Bang' theory that started the world.

Many critics feared the firing of particles into each other at high speed would create a black hole that would suck up the earth.

However a technical glitch means the machine needs to be warmed up from it's -271 degree temperature before it can be fixed then cooled down again before it will work.

The process is expected to take two months.

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22 Sep 2008 08:44p.m.

Alien wrote:

you'd prolly find many of the critics were religious fanatics scared of what the answers would show.

22 Sep 2008 04:38p.m.

Wanna Bikkit wrote:

Thank you David, I was beginning to think I was the only person reading these pages who understood any physics!

21 Sep 2008 04:13p.m.

David, Auckland wrote:

I'd like to know who these critics were and what qualified them to make claims to their bogus theories. What the machine hopes to replicate is a naturally occurring phenomenon and for scaremongering sensationalists (who are an insignificant minority, by the way) to frighten people into thinking the end is nigh for their own gain is frankly quite sickening. If any black hole were to be created from the experiment it would be of insufficient mass to pose any sort of threat and would evaporate rapidly.