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In an increasingly unsurprising turn of events, the Large Hadron Collider suffered a major power failure this morning, knocking the machine and its website out of service. The failure occurred in an 18,000-volt power line in Meyrin, Geneva where the LHC is housed beneath the ground, causing pretty much everything to shut down. The LHC’s magnets maintained a temperature of 1.9 degrees above absolute zero (having to re-cool them would have been a pretty sizeable setback), however, and no long-term damage seems to have occurred.

Originally posted here:
Large Hadron Collider grinds to a halt… again

Posted December 2nd, 2009 in Technology by admin. Tags: a-friend-via, a-halt-again, above-absolute, causing-pretty, housed-beneath, large-hadron, machine, morning, much-everything, pretty-sizeable, unfortunate



