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Tuesday July 21, 2009
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Man, tremendous particle accelerators just can't catch a break these days. Right as engineers finished repairing the helium leak that benched the Large Hadron Collider from doing much last year (aside from a successful early test), the team discovered two more vacuum leaks in another part of the machine.
In order for the leaks to be repaired, first engineers have to warm up the area, which is normally maintained at "ultracold temperatures," according to Wired. The new delay will likely push the LHC's projected restart sometime into November, after already being delayed twice recently.
Currently, the LHC is running about two and a half years behind schedule, according to the report.
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July 21, 2009 9:08 PM
Poor LHC! How are we going to destroy the world at this rate? If they keep this up they won't be ready until sometime in 2012! ;)
July 31, 2009 2:16 PM
Does LHC stand for Leaking Helium Collector? We could die of old age before this machine happens. I was hoping for time travel or perhaps anti-gravity. I'm a little frightened by the alternate universe thing but what the heck we're all gonna die anyway. North Korea is going to bomb us.