quit eating baguettes inside the collider, jacques!

[rivendellrose]

According to Times Online (via my Google science RSS feed):

The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.

I... actually don't even know what to say to that.

Full article here. Seriously, thrown out of a plane? That... does seem a bit improbable, doesn't it?

Comments

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

I... I don't even... what?

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

Ah, I heard it was a bird that dropped the bread. ^_^

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure, that's what they're telling everyone.... ;)

(Seriously, yes, I saw that in the article... but I can't get the image of some guy just going "oops!" with his lunch out of my head. ♥)

[ratzeo.livejournal.com]

They clearly need to hire physicists who don't eat. I can actually think of one who's looking for work right now, in fact!

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

The whole "Future Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery" thing is starting to look a bit more plausible, isn't it?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yup!

Actually, the most 'plausible' (ie, amusing) explanation that I thought of for this involves the Doctor showing off the LHC to one of his companions.

"Oh, the Large Hadron Collider! I'm telling you, Charley, the wonderful things they do with this thing... er...."

"Doctor?"

"...In about ten years time. Um. Come along, then, Charley. We'd better be going..."

"Doctor, where'd your sandwich go?"

"No time, Charley, no time... I think I just solved one of the 21st century's greatest mysteries, though...."

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I can sooo see that!

[windrose.livejournal.com]

My bet is on an errant bird, or perhaps some form of rodent.

Or, y'know, an absentminded professor. *g*

Of course, the loonies are all claiming it to be some kind of divine intervention to prevent the LHC from being turned on.