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LHC turned off

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says.
Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure.
On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.
The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva.

This week's questions

1- To what extent do you think the private lives of politicians should be revealed?
2- Is the enormous cost of the LHC a waste of money, better spent on the urgent problems of the planet?
Comment!!!

the hadron collider

The Video game !
To learn about it all visit the CERN site.
Why do we need the LHC?

Elections in America

In 'the Palin-Whatshisname Ticket" , op-ed columnist Frank Rich clearly analyses the problem: Palin is holding the whole stage now, relegating Mc Cain to the background. And Obama should not waste his energy on her. Indeed it is McCain Obama is to vie against, not Palin. He should stick to explaining the changes he would like to make.

Sarah Palin with her daughter posing with a caribou she shot in Alaska

Ever heard of the LHC?

This week's scientific highlight is the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, "the £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border designed to smash protons together with cataclysmic force." Visit this address to learn more about this extraordinary machine in a series of videos.

Comments on the usefulness of such an expensive device are welcome .