*** UPDATE ***

LHC helium leak will shut collider down for two months

The fridge was not working. Apparently this was not the first time.

Particle Collider Not Quite Ready to Collide

A week after subatomic particles began zooming around its underground racetrack amid cheers and Champagne, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN outside Geneva, is still struggling to take its next big step. Read here 

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