Those of you that were scared that the Large Hadron Collider was going to destroy the world can rest assured until summer ’09 because of repairs. The $10 billion dollar "apocalypse" experiment was shut down last month, 9 days after it started. Apparently the experiment was delayed by a single fault sauter joint. Repairs are estimated to cost at least $21 million.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research is now estimating to restart the experiment the end of June 2009.

The Large Hadron Collider, known for creating black holes and other earth-destroying forces, suffered even more than scientists anticipated in an accident a few weeks ago. They now are projecting the LHC will be closed until April 2009, stating that around 100 super-cooled magnets heated up by around 100 degrees. Considering they’ve been cooled by liquid helium, which is around -456 degrees celcius, those magnets have been seriously tampered with. Just too thaw the area out to replace the magnets will take a few weeks alone. I guess we’ve got another few months before the world ends. Saved again…for now.