The news that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has shut down until spring 2009 due to a technical failure, has not come as a surprise to some scientists, who say that such a glitch in the giant machine was expected. The LHC is the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy. The LHC circulated its first particle beams on 10 September 2008, but a few days later had to suspend operations due to equipment failure, when a faulty connection between two magnets triggered a shutdown which will...
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