Holographic light displays, now with interactive touchable and
feeling technology: The New York Times The biggest, most
expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands
of bad electrical connections. Many of the magnets meant to whiz
high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground
racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at
high energies.Some physicists are deserting the European
project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival
machine across the ocean. The planned restart of the world’s
largest atom smasher has been delayed, its operator said.
Scientists have to carry out further tests and put in place more
safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults which
sidelined the 10 billion-dollar (£6 billion) machine shortly
after start-up last year. The Large Hadron Collider was meant to
restart in late September, but that will probably be pushed back
two to three weeks to October, a spokesman for the European
Organisation for Nuclear Research said. After