Up close with the Large Hadron Collider
You might have heard this week that scientists at CERN switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)... then slowly inched away while crossing their fingers.
The LHC is the biggest science experiment ever designed and will be searching for the building blocks of the universe, but famously blew a fuse shortly after it was launched late last year.
Since then the boffins have had to cope with weird setback after weird setback as they went about carrying repairs.
Let's see, we've had everything from a helium leak to a bird dropping a piece of bread into an electrical substation over the past 12 months or so.
Some even say our future selves are traveling back in time in an effort to sabotage the machinery with bakery products.
But enough of all this, the Boston Globe's Big Picture has turned its lens on the LHC to mark its return.
Click on the pictures for a better view and then head on over to The Big Picture where there's plenty more.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
