{"id":815,"date":"2008-09-19T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T21:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=815"},"modified":"2008-09-19T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T21:09:42","slug":"faulty-transformer-was-a-ruse-the-real-lhc-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/815","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Transformer was a Ruse \u2014 the Real LHC Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thetimes.co.za\/shaggydog\/2008\/09\/18\/large-hadron-collider-spitting-out-lost-socks\/\">Large Hadron Collider spitting out lost socks<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt started on Tuesday, when a single white gym sock was found inside the collider,\u201d said Dr Thomas Engelson. \u201cAt first, we thought it was a prank or something left behind by one of the construction workers. We removed it, and, following our next high-energy collision, the accelerator was found to have filled with more than one hundred thousand socks. They had popped out of all the tiny black holes the collider produces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following their appearance, the socks were warm to the touch. Engelson said that it was probably the result of the energy dispelled at being burped from the black holes, but scientists are investigating the possibility that they have come straight from people\u2019s tumble dryers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were also full of static,\u201d said Engelson. \u201cIt is absolutely conceivable that the socks have been transported directly from tumble dryers, via some undiscovered, invisible vortex created by the heat, static and repetitive circular motion of a tumble dryer.\u201d The only thing confusing this theory is that the fibres on some analysed socks date back to the early 1900\u2019s, a few years after the clothes dryer was invented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large Hadron Collider spitting out lost socks \u201cIt started on Tuesday, when a single white gym sock was found inside the collider,\u201d said Dr Thomas Engelson. \u201cAt first, we thought it was a prank or something left behind by one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[292,381],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics","tag-lhc-humor","tag-physics-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}