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Baguette-Toting Bird Stalls Atom Smasher

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(Nov. 9) -- This is too weird: A bird reportedly has dropped a "bit of baguette" onto the world's largest atom smasher, causing the machine to short out for a period of time.
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This is too weird: A bird reportedly has dropped a bit of baguette onto the world\'s largest atom smasher, causing the machine to short out for a period of time. It\'s just the latest mishap for the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, which scientists plan to use to get insight into the universe\'s origins. The LHC, which has a 17-mile track to circulate protons and is located underground on the French-Swiss border outside Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest particle accelerator in the world and cost about $10 billion. The LHC booted up in September 2008, but technical problems forced it to shut down shortly after its launch. When the mystery bird reportedly dropped a piece of bread onto the particle accelerator\'s outdoor machinery earlier this week, the device was not turned on, according to reports, and therefore did not suffer major damage.