Instead, itself went kerplunk.
The failure on 19 September - described as a "massive" magnet quench - certainly seems dramatic: it caused the temperatures in about 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to soar by as much as 100C.
The fire brigade had to be called after a tonne of liquid helium leaked out into the LHC tunnel....
the Cause? a pipe seal leaked...so the end of the world has been put off for another couple of months.
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