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Well well well,, so readers as well said even the Titanics fall.. Helium leak forces LHC to shut down for two months But that doesnt stops this giant from operating.. it will be soon up and running... What happened: Geneva (Switzerland) – CERN reported the second major hiccup in getting its Large Hadron Collider(LHC) up to speed. A “large” helium leak, likely caused by a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, was detected on Friday. The repairs require the LHC to warm up, which means that the entire system will be offline for at least two months. The startup of the LHC isn’t going as smoothly as initially indicated. CERN said that an “incident” occurred in LHC’s final sector (34) at mid-day on Friday, causing helium to leak into the tunnel. The organization believes that the leak was likely caused by “a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure.” To repair the connection, the magnets will have to be...

A flawless start to the "Big Bang" experiment that will re-enact the first moments of the universe was hailed as a triumph by British scientists involved in the project today. At 9.30am the start-up team in Geneva announced they had achieved "first beam" at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex scientific instrument ever built. Protons - one of the building blocks of matter - were spun round the giant particle accelerator's 27 kilometre-long circular beam tunnel at just a fraction under the speed of light. Getting the beam to circulate all the way round the 100 metre-deep underground tunnel was originally expected to take most of the day. In fact the scientists also managed to send a beam in the opposite direction by about 2pm BST. Later the particles will be made to smash into each other at energy levels up to seven times higher than any seen before.