Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva noticed that the system’s carefully monitored temperatures were creeping up.Is this thing ever going to destroy the universe?
Further investigation into the failure of a cryogenic cooling plant revealed an unusual impediment. A piece of crusty bread had paralysed a high voltage installation that should have been powering the cooling unit.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Large Hadron Collider stalled again
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After posting this I had to click the link near the top of RE: just to make certain that the Earth had not yet been destroyed by the LHC. It said NO.
Whew!
So, one of the theories was that the Higgs Boson is so antithetical to reality that it automatically destroys any universe where one comes into solitary existence.
Applying the theory of Quantum Immortality to that, we are automatically in a universe where the LHC never creates a Higgs Boson. The harder we try, the more outrageous the "coincidence" that comes along to prevent it. It's a little akin to the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle - there are some things that are resisted by the universe itself. The odds, on the quantum level, of a Higgs Boson being formed, are less than the odds of say... a piece of toast spontaneously materializing inside the machinery.
That is to say that "A piece of crusty bread" shoved into a cryogenic unit has three possible explanations.
1) gross incompetence
2) outright sabotage
3) infinite improbability
I'm really hoping it's #3.
This might be the single most technologically advanced piece of equipment ever assembled here on earth and it stretches for miles. We should expect a few false starts. These scientists may be some of the most brilliant people on the planet, but they are really focused in one little area of expertise. With the exception of Brian Cox.
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"This might be the single most technologically advanced piece of equipment ever assembled here on earth and it stretches for miles. We should expect a few false starts."
I agree with you in principle. Rome wasn't built in a day, and all that.
But, seriously, a piece of crusty bread? A piece of crusty bread inside the machinery? Someone confuse a circuit box for a lunch box? What's next, egg on their face?
You are saying this to a guy who got hit in the eye by a rock at Wal-Mart. What are the odds?
And all these years, I thought you got hit in the rock with a wall at eyemart... Damn yearbook.
I mean I had to milk the cows.
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