Cern's atom-bashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may not be
reopened until the second half of next year, after the accident
that shut it down shortly after opening.
The Collider, designed to potentially tell us what happened
during and immediately after the Big Bang suffered an electrical
fault last month.
A resulting liquid helium leak caused extensive damage to the
Cern system, and since then engineers have been working at the
Geneva site on a plan of action to get the Collider up and running
again.
However, the initial estimate of a spring 2009 re-opening has
now possibly slipped to the second half of the year, according to
reports.
