Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2010/03/22/telegraph_lhc/

Telegraph trips over the Large Hardon Collider

Sub-atomic cock-up

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 22nd March 2010 15:59 GMT

The Daily Telegraph last Friday showed particle boffins the potentially disastrous effects of meddling with things you don't fully understand - in this case just what "LHC" stands for:

Large Hardon Collider breaks energy record, says Telegraph

This being the interwebs, the paper was able to move with almost light speed to correct the outrage - an electronic benefit not available to the New York Times when it committed the same delightful error back in 2008. ®

Bootnote

The Large Hardon Collider was spotted and preserved for posterity by this sharp-eyed Flickr user.