The LHC can SCREW YOU UP, MAN!

Calculations show that the LHC can defrost a pizza in 30 nanoseconds! Well, that's good to know.

Interesting tidbit though, and what inspired the blog entry title:

Of course, this all assumes the beam energy could be spread across the surface of the pizza. In reality, the beam would drill into the pizza, Steinberg says. That potential for damage is why workers are very careful about maneuvering the proton beam.

In 2003, a magnet failure at the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., bore a hole in one piece of the beam pipe and dug a 30-centimeter groove in another. The machine was back up and running in two weeks.

Magnet failure: Bad.