Yep, it's true: A bird dropped a baguette on some outdoor electrical equipment at the Large Hadron Collider on Tuesday, interrupting the cooling system that chills two sectors of the collider. CERN issued a statement today saying that the incident was similar to a power outage: failsafe systems came on, the cause was identified, and the two sectors are now back to normal operating temperatures.
According to the statement, the bird escaped unharmed but lost its bread.
Update, Nov. 9: See "LHC rebounds from baguette attack; sends beam around half the ring"
