By Paul Rincon "Engineers hope an early warning system being installed at the Large Hadron Collider could prevent incidents of the kind which shut the machine last year."
"The helium leak last September, which resulted from a "faulty splice" between magnets, has delayed the start of science operations by more than a year."
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So no generation of black holes this year? Frankly, this entire episode can also be modeled as some theorists rechecked their equations, found some micro BH issues and put a lid on it till they knew for sure. The "Magnet quench" BS is could well be just a cover to operate the machine at low levels until then.
You know what's interesting? There have been dozens of "end of the US" scenareos presented in the last 30 years. Not one of them was about keeping the interest rates so low that we'd bankrupt the country in debt - even with the example of Japan staring us in the face. With all the AGW/supervolcanos/nuclear winter stuff, wouldn't it be funny if the earth was destroyed by a physics experiment? It would answer the question why no contact with intelligence outside this world.
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