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Baguette breaks Large Hadron Collider
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 3:32pm
It's almost as if God doesn't want the scientists at CERN to fire up the Large Hadron Collider. The world's largest particle-collider, which cost around £4 billion to construct and, by the way, might destroy the world, has run into another technical mishap -- this time caused by "an errant chunk of baguette."
Somehow, a piece of bread got lodged into an electrical unit that is responsible for cooling the collider to 1.9 degrees above absolute zero. How the bread got there is a mystery: a CERN spokeswoman hypothesized that it was dropped by a bird or an airplane. But if the investigation does suggest sabotage, the local bakers' union will likely be a prime suspect.













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