When you’re dealing with smashing atoms and black holes, you can’t be too careful. That’s why Cern is delaying the re-opening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by three months to allow for additional safety work.
The LHC is a giant track, running under France and Switzerland, that allows scientists to replicate the Big Bang, but on a much smaller scale.
It was shut down shortly after its opening last year by a liquid helium leak. Original plans had been for it to re-open in June, but that’s now been put back to September, with the first atoms set to be smashed the following month.
