Hadron Collider Shut Down by a Baguette in the Electronics
The trouble-plagued Hadron collider had to be taken offline for several days due to temperatures that were higher than they should have been. Eventually the problem was traced to a baguette in a cryogenic cooling unit's electrical system.
According to a European Organization for Nuclear Research spokeswoman it is unclear how the crusty French bread ended up in an electrical system in a secured area.
"The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, either that or it was thrown out of a passing airplane. Obviously this was slightly surprising. Within the team there was some amusement once they had relaxed after initial concerns," she said.
Most of it is underground. There are access tunnels leading straight up to the surface, which is how most of the equipment was lowered into place. That being said, this still makes no sense. Do they really have a sensitive electrical system open to the air, allowing things to "fall in" that could affect cooling, etc? WTF?
I´m a fan of Cern and the LHC, and can´t wait for it to be fired up and start crunching data, but gee whiz - all of these odd problems and such just makes it seem like the whole project is a real world Half-Life waiting to happen. Not to mention that the whole facility reminds one of of something straight out of the game. And now you have some crackpots saying that the attempt to find the higgs-boson are causing a ripple backwards through time affecting the LHC, causing anomalous problems. LOL. Now we know it´s some hungry time traveling Frenchman causing the issues. When they find a bottle of Merlot and a hunk of cheese in some of the equipment we´ll know for sure.
Maybe someone from the future came back to put it there in order to stop us from destoying ourselves... Seeing as time travel is becoming more realistic by the day i don´t think its that crazy. Although reading that back over makes me laugh a little
I know it has been down for a long time but considering how few (but rather major in some cases) incidents there are, it seems to be going well. Hell, our companies can´t even merge AD correctly.
a baguette can get down there, someone should drop a few frag grenades down there to delay the operators for taking huge risks on behalf of the rest of humanity.
And...time travel becoming more realistic?...Eh...not really..
actually sugar in the gas tank doesn´t work that well, unless you uses several kg´s of ir... then maybe... thats an urban myth... in truth, sand work better, but water works best, because oil (and thusly gasoline) floats on water, and hence the engine will be sucking water, not gas.
@cosmic explorer and pyronius
time travel (forward) is quite easy, just travel faster than light, which has recently been proven possible by either moving an entire section of space (warp speed), or by temporarily converting matter into information carrying energy (like teleportation theories), basically you just have to be moving faster than everything else for a peroid of time and that peroid of time if the time travel... however going backward may be impossible, it should in theory actually be easier for time to stop than reverse, which basically just means thats everything slows down to a stop, but since time is relative we wouldn´t notice.
in my opinion the only actual way that there would be to travel back in time would to be actually reverse the process of celestial bodies themselves, and even that wouldn´t change time as we know it but rather time as it exist for the universe itself.
for traveling to the past the question needs to be asked can it actually be possible to not do an action you´ve already done. which creates a logical contradiction.
because basically it comes down to even if it was possible to travel back in time the celestial bodies wouldn´t be in the same place, and you just be floating somewhere in space, maybe not even in our solar system depending on how far back you went.
unlike a video game or movie the universe may not be possible to "rewind".
of course this is outside of temporal annomolies that create temporal paradox´s that may exist in space for reasons (perhaps they could be created in controlled conditions IF they indeed exist) currently beyond our comprehension, and only covers the 4 demension we exist in, anything beyond that is also currently beyond our comprehension.
Equal parts of powdered aluminium and magnesium in the gas tank works best.
As for time travel backwards, it´s simple. You do the same thing as going forward, in reverse. Instead of making a chunk of the universe go faster than light, you make a chunk of the universe stop and make the rest go faster than light.
Must have left it down there when he was confused and trying to escape after stealing the super bending magnet to make their pinewood derby car go faster.
