This is just getting odd…

LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird: “This time, it is not falling cranes, cracked magnets, liquid helium leaks or even links to Al Qaeda, that have halted man’s efforts to understand the meaning of life, the universe and everything. It now appears that the collider is hindered from an initial firing by a baguette, dropped by a passing bird: ‘The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Maybe our future selves really don’t want us to turn on the LHC!

Bagel or fate?

Ah, science!