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For those of you who feared that the Earth was going to implode on itself from events resulting from the experiments taking place at the Large Hadron Collider...relax, you got a few more days.
Apparently, a transformer in the unit blew out this morning, causing the temperature within the device to rise from 2 degrees Kelvin to 4.5 degrees Kelvin, so they're taking some time to swap the part out and try again.
Personally, I think the most the LHC is gonna do is, at worst, implode on itself and take out no more than a few hundred square feet, or explode with the force of a miniature nuke. What I expect most to happen, though, is for the whole device to get up to speed, go through all its experiments without a hitch, and teach us absolutely nothing.
At which point I'm going to laugh my ass off at the wasted efforts.
EDIT:
Oh goodie. MORE problems.
Apparently, a transformer in the unit blew out this morning, causing the temperature within the device to rise from 2 degrees Kelvin to 4.5 degrees Kelvin, so they're taking some time to swap the part out and try again.
Personally, I think the most the LHC is gonna do is, at worst, implode on itself and take out no more than a few hundred square feet, or explode with the force of a miniature nuke. What I expect most to happen, though, is for the whole device to get up to speed, go through all its experiments without a hitch, and teach us absolutely nothing.
At which point I'm going to laugh my ass off at the wasted efforts.
EDIT:
Oh goodie. MORE problems.
