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by Swisster Staff
November 9, 2009 | 12:04
A piece of bread dropped by a bird is being blamed for briefly shutting down the sophisticated Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) last week.
Part of a baguette fell onto an electrical transformer on Tuesday cutting power to the LHC, shutting down the multi-billion-franc particle accelerator on the Geneva-France border for three days.
The bread “caused a short circuit in an electrical outdoor installation that serves sectors 7-8 and 8-1 of the LHC,” CERN said in statement issued on its website.
This resulted in an interruption to the LHC’s cryogenics system, which is designed to cool the accelerator to minus 270 degrees – the temperature of outer space.
The collider is located in a 26-kilometre circular tunnel, 100 metres beneath the earth.
“The bird escaped unharmed but lost its bread,” CERN said.
The research centre is set to resume this month what is billed as the physics “experiment of the century.” It hopes to smash particles together in the accelerator in a bid to learn more about the origins of matter.
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