Oh, bollocks! When CERN’s Large Hadron Collider started up this past September, we figured it was only a matter of time before the world as we knew it imploded. Thus, we did as any reasonable group of individuals would do and evaporated our life savings before being beamed up. Now, we’re stuck waiting around (with four or five pennies) for this September, as that’s the new restart date following the LHC’s run-in with bad luck late last year. If all goes to plan this go ’round, the machine will run into autumn of 2010, when engineers will hopefully see collisions of lead ions. Needless to say, gurus are implementing a new enhanced protection system to keep things from going so wrongly again, but you never can tell what’ll happen when smashing atoms, now can you?
[Via CNET]
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