Two Oh Man’s for this week.

1. They busted the LHC ! WTF were you doing Brian?
No, seriously, they LHC had an electrical failure in one section where some electrical do-hickey burnt out and needs to be repaired. Trouble is that it is one of the superconducting electro-magents and they are cooled to nearly absolute zero, meaning that a whole section of the LHC will have to be emptied of the tonnes of gas that is used to keep it cool and get it all warmed up so that technicians can go inside to fix the issue. Read the rest of this entry »