"Big Bang" collider repairs to cost up to $29 million (Reuters)

[Drew Wilson]

GENEVA (Reuters) - Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the "Big Bang" could cost up to 35 million Swiss francs ($29 million), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday.

Announcing a further delay to the Large Hadron Collider's resumption, now expected in summer, CERN spokesman James Gillies said repairs will cost 15 million Swiss francs, and spare parts would cost another 10-20 million Swiss francs.

The massive collider, the largest and most complex machine ever made, has already cost 10 billion Swiss francs to build, supported by CERN's 20 European member states and other nations including the United States and Russia.

"We will not be going to our member states asking for more money, we will deal with it within the current CERN budget," Gillies said.

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I've been wondering why we are still here. The big doom machine is broken!

[mountain_rage]

Someone should make a comedy based on the theory that this will destroy the universe. You have nerdy science guys who are plotting sweet revenge on the entire human race for making their lives miserable in high school, the numerous gods too busy playing poker against each other to notice we are about to be obliterated, and the wacko doomsday theorist who no one wants to listen to. Pure comedic gold I tell ya.