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There was a news items on our daily paper site called \"Algemeen Dagblad\" which says that the LHC stopped again because some bird dropped some bread into the LHC?? This causes make the LHC overheating.

This a joke? Dont see anything yet on CERN frontpage.

I hope not.


http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1014/Bizar/article/detail/442430/2009/11/06/Vogel-met-stukje-brood-maakt-deeltjesversneller-weer-stuk.dhtml#reageerTag

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc

Any engineer or someone who works at Cern can confirm this?

There was a news items on our daily paper site called \\\"Algemeen Dagblad\\\" which says that the LHC stopped again because some bird dropped some bread into the LHC?? This causes make the LHC overheating.

This a joke? Dont see anything yet on CERN frontpage.

I hope not.


http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1014/Bizar/article/detail/442430/2009/11/06/Vogel-met-stukje-brood-maakt-deeltjesversneller-weer-stuk.dhtml#reageerTag

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc

Any engineer or someone who works at Cern can confirm this?

The news is indeed correct,

See http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2009/091106b.html

Best regards from Belgium,
Thierry

only temp. power-lose to the cooling nothing else.

was oke in the day (or next)


GO: http://www.Dutchpowercows.org

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There was a theory put forward a while ago that the discovery of a naked higgs particle would be so abhorrent to nature that \'the universe\' would conspire to prevent it.

I was pretty sceptical at the time to say the least, but birds and baguette...?