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The LHC has been shut down again, this time due to a bird dropping a piece of bread on power supplies at the Atlas facility

The particle accelerator in Sarn in Switzerland was shut down for a few hours because a baguette fell from a bird's mouth and caused a chain reaction during which sensitive components in the accelerator heated up. This will not delay the reopening at the end of the month

The Israeli detector in the Atlas facility. Photo: Avi Blizovsky
The Israeli detector in the Atlas facility. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

LHC the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator cannot relax. First, a refrigerant gas leak destroyed some of the magnets leading the energy beam. The facility's managers then had to delay its restart to add safety systems. Now it turns out that even the sky does not light up the face of the particle accelerator.

No, it is not intended to be a repentance of any kind - simply a bird dropped a piece of baguette on the Atlas facility - one of the four experimental facilities along the particle accelerator tunnel, and caused its activity to stop again.

The bird dropped a piece of bread on equipment located outside the Atlas facility, hitting it led to a chain reaction that eventually caused parts of the accelerator to overheat. the accelerator itself, but the event produced so much heat that the automatic safety devices caused the facility to shut down.

The malfunction will not delay the restart of the facility later this month, but it exposes another vulnerability of the most complex machine ever built. It is interesting how this fault fits in with the far-fetched theory put forward by scientists according to which the Higgs boson legislator does not want to be discovered and so that it would not be discovered, caused Power from the future Faults that will delay or cancel the opening of the accelerator work.

In any case, it can be assumed that one of the dishes that will be offered in Saran's sophisticated cafeteria will be a baguette with particles...

For the news in Popular Science

For news on the subject also in the Guardian

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  1. XDD How far will we go with their glitches? I thought the place was secure... it turns out not.
    I don't understand, I want to meet the official engineers of this machine, who let you work anyway?
    And there are some crazy comments... Wow, you made me feel better.

  2. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
    A billion dollars destroyed by a baguette, and a hungry bird 🙂 Prohibit the distribution and sale of baguettes or birds in the accelerator area!!! In general, all of France and Switzerland will go on a diet at least until we find where Higgs was buried

  3. Do we discover the universe as is accepted in science or do we create the universe
    The boson is not in a hurry to be discovered because there is a different probability about the universe
    And as soon as one turns out to be true, all the rest fall away
    The universe is not as continuous as you might think, in reality it is quite distorted.
    This means that it is more than possible for several theories to exist at the same time
    Although there is no connection between them or a common denominator.

  4. Where does it say that it was a dove? Everywhere just write a bird (except for comments here on the site) according to what I saw...

  5. Natty, what are you talking about? What is the limit? What is not ripe? Does a bird with a baguette sound like an inevitable mishap to you?

  6. I enjoyed a lot of the comments here. Humor is good, and you shouldn't raise it to harsh tones..

    What I wanted to add is that it seems that in this development we have gone right to the edge (the end of our ability), and perhaps we (as humanity) are not yet ripe for raising a project of such a level of complexity and delicacy.

    I know that those who try to go "on the edge" do not achieve significant achievements (see for example a significant part of the space program), but maybe in this case we really are not done yet..

    From fault to fault, I'm only more convinced that my assessment is quite correct.

  7. This God has been behaving timidly lately, a consuming heavenly fire in biblical style, was much more impressive
    From sending a pigeon with baguette (although he deserves 2 bonus points for the originality regarding the baguette).

  8. This only indicates the power of God...
    They will not be able to prove that there is a particle from which the world was "created", because it was not created from it.

  9. Come on brother-in-law, calm down, 13 didn't say anything out of place...
    You have to give respect to a person no matter what his age is... and he said in the General Assembly "Flowers from Be'er-Sheva" is a sentence out of place and maybe I agree with him a little bit... hahaha...
    So Eyal take things in stride or you will be bitter all your life (I hope you wouldn't be bitter all your life)
    bye Sabala'

  10. 13:
    It sounds like you really are 13. For sure you are not far from that. So maybe give a little more respect. And really, you might be right. It's true, today we don't talk like we used to. But it turns out that today they don't give respect like they used to, as they should. And it certainly doesn't give you any more respect for this kind of speech ("Sabal'a"). A person who does not give respect, does not receive respect. If you don't understand it now, you will understand it in the future. Successfully.

  11. "flowers"? "Flowers from Be'er Sheva"?!
    Tell me, are you a time traveller? From 1984?
    Grandma, wake up and smell your Ashkenazi tea. 25 years have passed since then. A quarter of a century. That's how people talk today.. 🙂

  12. What is all the comments above me
    YNET?
    Do yourself a favor, what does this look like to you?
    Comments of flowers from Be'er Sheva are on Ynet

  13. Hahahahaha Baguette…..
    Beavers are not suckers of the birds in Europe….

    Only in Israel do pigeons eat wet bamba

  14. It turns out that despite the large investment cost, they did not think about protection against birds that could disrupt their plans...

  15. Now all that's missing is a little mouse that will disable the system again…..what is the chance that a crow will drop a baguette right there??

    Food for thought….

  16. Is it possible that this is not a bird at all but an elementary particle boson or other that stuck its baguette into the machine? Pigeon or whatever zoological species it is, the question remains - how did a bird armed with a baguette get to a sterile scientific facility buried deep underground???

  17. This boson builder is not a sucker, making us Davinians, connections with the future?! In my opinion not for long, a debunked theory.

  18. "The most sophisticated machine" but they never heard of a protective net there. Baguette? What is this nonsense?

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