Large Hadron Collider Shut Down by Bread Crumbs

Bird drops a speck of bread that shuts down CERN's Large Hadron Collider

CERN's Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No catastrophic helium leak or failing magnets this time. The culprit? A speck of bread, which officials believe was originally part of a larger baguette.

The morsel found its way into the doomsday device's outdoor machinery, sparking a temperature differential that triggered an automatic shutdown sequence.

The Large Hadron Collider should still get collidin' in November as planned, though it will be offline for the next few days as CERN restarts it.

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