One of eight magnetic assemblies in the Large Hadron Collider's particle accelerator has gone arse over shoulder, failing during preliminary tests leading into the facility's late 2007 turn-on date.
The magnets created an electromagnetic field that guides streams of manufactured subatomic particles around the 27km-long underground ring, in which scientists hope to foster collissions that may reveal some of the universe's fundamental physical secrets.
Fermilab, U.S.-based builders of the assemblies, will study the failure and remedy it, though it's possible the problem will delay the project.
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