[BP2]

It was damaged on the first of the trials to power it up to full capacity on Sept 19, 2008. The world got a 8-month reprieve.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081017/full/4551015a.html

Eight-month delay for LHC
Broken magnets put particle collider in limbo

Geoff Brumfiel

Details of last month's accident at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's premier particle accelerator, are emerging — and confirm that the machine will not restart before late May or early June 2009.

Officials at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, say that the time is needed to overhaul a sector of the 27-kilometre-long machine, after an electrical failure on 19 September caused some 6 tonnes of ultra-cold liquid helium to leak into its tunnel.

[reagandemocrat]

How do they know a microscopic black hole didn’t escape on Sept. 19th, and is now churning and devouring matter at the center of the earth?

I’m just sayin’.

[Walmartian]

6 tonnes of ultra-cold liquid helium

Sounds like a great big MRI.