 Crumbs! Baguette leads to malfunction of Hadron Collider
 The massive machine at the centre of the world’s biggest scientific
experiment has malfunctioned again – derailed by a bit of bread dropped
by a bird. The Hadron Collider, buried 100m under the ground near
Geneva, Switzerland, is supposed to recreate conditions seen after the
Big Bang. It is hoped the £4.4bn machine will shed light on the event
that many scientists believe gave birth to the universe around 14
billion years ago.
A “bit of baguette”, thought to have been dropped by a bird, fall
onto machinery, causing a fault. Members of the public who had been
looking at data published online noticed the temperature changes and
contacted journalists at The Register. They alerted those in charge of
the project at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern).
The difficulties faced by those working on the project have prompted
some members of the scientific community to speculate, in all
seriousness, that the machine is sabotaging itself - from the future.
The theory is that the particle that physicists hope to produce might be
“abhorrent to nature”, so that once created it would work backwards
through time to put a stop to whatever created it.
Prisoners save guard from inmate attack
Shocking footage of an inmate strangling a guard at a Florida jail
before other prisoners battled to save him has been released.
Surveillance cameras spotted Douglas Burden, 24, charging at 64-year-old
Kenneth Moon in Orient Road Jail, Tampa.
Mr Moon was the sole guard in a prison block that houses 62 inmates,
when Burden pounced. The attacker quickly swung an arm around the
jailer’s neck, put the older man in a choke hold and started strangling
him. Jerry Dieguez Jr, detained over an armed home invasion charge, was
the first rescuer to reach Burden and hit him. The blow sent all three
men crashing to the ground.
Two more inmates, an alleged killer and a man accused of drug
trafficking, then helped prise Burden’s arm off Mr Moon’s throat, before
another prisoner radioed for help. Guards eventually restrained the
attacker. The sheriff’s office is to send letters to the rescuers’
lawyers to be used in court on the inmates’ behalf.
Prison guard Anthony Brown said: “You would think that they would
walk away, so somewhere in their hearts, there must be some goodness.”
Giant jellyfish capsize 10-tonne fishing boat
 Giant jellyfish have capsized a 10-tonne fishing boat after its crew
tried to haul in a net full of the stinging creatures off the eastern
coast of Japan. Dozens of Nomura’s jellyfish sunk the Diasan Shinsho-maru
boat and sent its three-man crew into the sea, The Mainichi Daily News
reported.
The organisms can weigh up to 440lbs and grow up to 6ft in diameter.
The three men forced into the sea, near Chosi, were rescued by another
trawler. Experts believe weather and water conditions in the breeding
grounds off the coast of China have been ideal for the species in recent
months. |
