Crumbs! Baguette
4:02pm UK, Friday November 06, 2009
(Reported by Emma Rowley, Sky News Online )
The machine at the centre of the world's most expensive scientific experiment has malfunctioned again – derailed by a bit of
bread dropped by a bird.
The Hadron Collider is the £4.4bn machine that will shed light on the event that many scientists believe gave birth to the universe around 14 billion years ago, but the project has suffered a series of setbacks.
The latest saw a "bit of baguette", thought to have been dropped by a bird, fall onto machinery, causing a fault.
Sections of the machine, which fires protons round a 17-mile-long tunnel at close to the speed of light in order to smash them in to each other, then overheated.
As Reported by Emma Rowley
Is the machine self-sabotaging?
The difficulties faced by those working on the project have prompted some members of the scientific community to speculate, in all seriousness, that the machine is sabotaging itself - from the future.
The theory is that the particle that physicists hope to produce might be "abhorrent to nature", so that once created it would work backwards through time to put a stop to whatever created it.
VOL COMMENT Does this mean the baguette is going to go back in time and destroy who ever invented the baguette !!!
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