Large Hadron Collider Produces Common ‘Failtron’ Particle
Posted by Sunday on Sep 20, 2008 at 1:55 pm in Daily Space, TechieThe Large Hadron Collider, aka Mr. Black-Holey, made scientists cry this week by breaking.
Including the failure of a 30-ton electrical transformer and then the far more irritating mass leakage of helium from a supercooled chamber which — while hilarious for the scientists in the chamber that the helium leaked into — will have to be warmed and then supercooled again, a long and expensive process.
CERN’s Dr. James Gilles was reported to have commented that having one’s World’s Biggest Collider totally break in a fucked up way is “(…) just an unfortunate fact of life (…).”
Collider to Be Stalled for 2 Months at The New York Times.
I read somewhere that ‘Hadron’ is a miss-spelling that stuck. Original name was ‘Hardon’ … Large Hardon Collider.
Has a nice ring to it, eh?
I think it was John Hodgman saying that, so I’d take it with a grain of liberties.