Thread: Concern at CERN as weasel shuts down Large Hadron Collider

The world's most powerful particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, went offline after a weasel caused a short circuit on a high-voltage transformer.

The collider suffered a "severe electrical perturbation" at 5:30 am (0330 GMT) Friday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said in its daily summary of activity at the giant lab straddling the French-Swiss border.

It said the cause was a "short circuit caused by fouine (weasel)" on a 66-kilovolt transformer, adding that its connections sustained some damage.

CERN spokesman Arnaud Marsollier told the BBC it would take a few days to repair the damage caused by the weasel, which did not survive its high-voltage encounter.

"Not the best week for LHC!" CERN said in its summary.

Experiments at the collider are aimed at unlocking clues about how the universe came into existence by studying fundamental particles, the building blocks of all matter, and the forces that control them.

The LHC, housed in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) tunnel, was used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson, also known as the God particle, which confers mass.

That discovery earned the 2013 Nobel physics prize for two of the scientists who had theorised the existence of the Higgs back in 1964.

It later underwent a two-year upgrade to double its energy levels.

The LHC allows beams containing billions of protons to shoot through the massive collider in opposite directions.

Powerful magnets bend the beams so that they collide at points around the track where four laboratories have batteries of sensors to monitor the smashups.

The sub-atomic rubble is then scrutinised for novel particles and the forces that hold them together.

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6 billion euro to build.
Running costs of 1 billion euro a year not including the 100+ facilities world wide attached to this.

Cern has to be one of the craziest and biggest wastes of money that the nutjob scientists, who did not and do not know what will happen with this machine, have ever visited on the people of the earth.

All brought to a screeching halt because of a weasel (allegedly).

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

The collider suffered a "severe electrical perturbation" at 5:30 am (0330 GMT) Friday,

I bet that's nothing compared to what the weasel suffered.

Poor old Smeg.Was he trying to find the God particle? RIP

Hmmm I see a whole new franchise here.

"Planet of the Weasels".

A scientist, played by Brad Pitt, is caught in an accident at a science research place and thrust into the future where the world is run by advanced weasels.

Who's going to chip in?

(Brad isn't on board yet, but I'm sure he'll be keen).

Originally Posted by pseudolus

6 billion euro to build.
Running costs of 1 billion euro a year not including the 100+ facilities world wide attached to this.

Cern has to be one of the craziest and biggest wastes of money that the nutjob scientists, who did not and do not know what will happen with this machine, have ever visited on the people of the earth.

Originally Posted by hazz

Psudo, whilst I realise your just being a dick. But it is not lost on me that when you were writing your post, you were using a tool that is part of one of the most disruptive developments of the 20th century. a development initiated by CERN as part of its need to share complex information quickly and easily between widely separated people, HTML.

Al gore invented the internet actually. You know this, because he said it many times and he never lies.

Anyway, I am not being a dick. I see cern as a huge waste of money. I look at cern, and then I look at articles such as this

Scandal of Britain?s 1m malnourished pensioners | UK | News | Daily Express

Millions of UK pensioners suffering from STARVATION because of poor diets and lack of help

and in my heart, being honest to myself, I can not justify allowing scientists unlimited funds to fuck around with things that could have disastrous consequences, when instead there is real suffering, malnutrition, lack of medical care, and all sorts of problems that the money could be better spent on. Could I look in the face of some old person slowly starving to death in the UK, today, through malnutrition, and then justify Cern? No I could not. The I AM GOD scientists can. Can you?

O dear, silly boy

Originally Posted by hazz

O dear, silly boy

He's not very bright you know.

Originally Posted by hazz

O dear, silly boy

Why?

Also, lets ask you again. go and tell an old poor person that they need to starve in one of the top richest countries in the world so we can part fund CERn, and then tell them what benefit Cern will be to them, you or me.

Besides, I bet no matter what they find or discover, it will be weaponised and used to murder people. Antihydrogen bomb anyone?

Ive already explained, but you could not understand for reasons that harry has pointed out

psudo, As for the antihydrogen bomb, harrison ford has a message for you

Psudo, whilst I realise your just being a dick. But it is not lost on me that when you were writing your post, you were using a tool that is part of one of the most disruptive developments of the 20th century. a development initiated by CERN as part of its need to share complex information quickly and easily between widely separated people, HTML.

The internet was a by product of cern. so what are you wittering on about? Oh, and I keep harry on block, a privaledged seat that aside from him, only Piwi sits on. Sometimes I view his posts, buut usually not. Is there anything worth viewing on his latest one, or is his just his typical non contributory, off topic, bullshit that represents 99.999999999999999999999% of all his posts on all the 200000 forums he spends his time on?

You have explained nothing other than I am using the internet, which came as a by product of CERN. Creating the internet is not what they are doing though.

So again - go to north england (the sacrifice zone as the politicians call it) in a area with 70% unemployment, speak to a kid with an air filled belly and explain to him he benefit of chucking billions at Cern rather than feeding him.

Originally Posted by hazz

antihydrogen bomb

I know nothing of trump - I saw Cern was fucking about finding antihydrogen, and knowing that everything is always weaponised, put the word bomb on the end. Chose to believe me or not, I don't care.

poor thing.... I thought you were on a wind up... but you really don't understand do you.... that is so sad. have a nice day

Originally Posted by hazz

poor thing.... I thought you were on a wind up... but you really don't understand do you.... that is so sad. have a nice day

Understand what? Try explaining. All you have mentioned so far is the Internet coming from a cross sharing platform sharing date to be analysed over many countries. But, that has fuck all to do with what cern is actually doing.

So at this juncture, I can safely assume that you know absolutely nothing about cern either (aside from getting carried away with the media hype around it), have had a quick look on Wiki, still don't know, so instead are now trying to deceive that you are smart and clever when in reality, you haven't a clue.

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles.

Wonder if they have got the machine that goes PING! Need that, its the most expensive machine, and the investors might turn up at any minute.

Great -a guess your height machine. You can get them at the circus.

Try again. What are they trying to achieve and why should I give a shit about it? Why should people starve for it? Why should peoples taxes go up for it, or have vital service cut for it?

come on psudo. I know that your a windup merchant, using this forum to exercise that inner daemon of yours so that you can put on maintain mask of respectability as you wonder around real-life (tm)... But really 'but what about the staving' strawman, is as intellectually shallow as they get... even jeff does not stoop that low.

But why do anything, when people are starving, roads, car, satellites.... why bother with any form of progress or reasech when there are people staving? Puting it bluntly taking this form anti-interlectalism to its conclusion.... if we thought this way we would all be stuck in the 16th century, with a 10th of todays population 98% of of whom would be stick in absolute poverty.... no unlike the NWF provence of Pakistan... and what a lovely place that is.

But then your forum persona knows so little about reality.... hollywood movies are its reality. BTW your second guess as to cern's role in changes to modern society is about as wrong as the first.... learn to read and you might eventually get there.

Cobblers. Roads, infrastructure, vehicles, satelites, all of these things we know exactly what they do and the benefit they have to humanity. Seem to me you are evading a logical question. Cut to the chase - I own firms operating and paying taxes in 2 different European countries who contribute to the Cern game. I have never once been able to ascertain what the hell they are up to, and they are spending my money to do it.

So, are you going to evade the question another time, or are you going to answer it, because you might be my salvation here as I have searched high and low to find someone who can answer this;

What are they doing, and how will that benefit the man in the street tax payer who is funding it?

There. Simple enough.

if you push any branch of science to the extreme , other good things tend to follow , eg a lot came out of the moon expeditions.