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Friday November 6, 2009
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Okay. So we know that the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, has run into a few snags recently, including a major coolant leak, an arrest, and numerous delays.
Now we can add bird droppings to the list. Or, more specifically, a dropped piece of bread.
Popular Science reports that a bird dropped a baguette on a section of LHC machinery outdoors, which eventually caused part of the accelerator to overheat--enough that if the LHC were actually running at the time, the heat would have triggered automatic failsafes and shut down the system.
The bread won't cause another delay in the planned reactivation next month, according to the report.
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