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LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million

Posted by kdawson on from the black-holes-don't-come-cheap dept.

ThanatosMinor writes "September's quench at the Large Hadron Collider is going to cost CERN at least $21 million and delay future collisions until June of 2009 at the earliest. Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon."

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  1. Re:I'm starting to believe... by Thiez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > And Higgs is known as the God particle

    Yeah, someone gave it that name and now we can't get rid of it. I find the whole thing rather annoying, it is a just a particle and no more 'divine' than a potato. The media seem to love the name, though. People want to believe.

    The guy who modded you interesing must be one of those idiots.