Bang

[Deckard]

"Repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will cost almost £14m ($21m) and "realistically" take until at least next summer to start back up."

Disappointing. I just hope everything goes right next time round. I've recently been reading up a fair bit on some of the things scientists are hoping these experiments will shed light on, if not confirm or rule out - supersymmetry and string/M-theory, the Higgs field, hidden dimensions, etc. It may take years to analyze, but right now I feel like it can't come soon enough, so the sooner these collisions start back up, the better.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7734251.stm