The Collider Moved Twice. Both Times By Exactly Fourteen Hours.
MEYRIN, Switzerland — The collider's run schedule moved twice in a fortnight. Both times by exactly fourteen hours.
Eleven readers wrote to us within a day of the second move. So we telephoned the run co-ordinator, who spoke on the record.
Both were cryogenic recovery slots. Fourteen hours is the standard recovery block. It is in the laboratory's published operating manual — section 4.2, page 61 — and it has been fourteen hours since 2011.
We are printing this because eleven people asked, and because the answer cost one telephone call and one page of a public document.
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Sources & Method
Read the laboratory's own published minutes; telephoned the co-ordinator named in them.
Who we spoke to
- Published run co-ordination minutes, Public record. Read from the laboratory's own public schedule archive August 2026
- Run co-ordinator, Named in our notes; spoke on the record. Telephone 7 August 2026 Explains both moves as cryogenic recovery. Says fourteen hours is the standard block.
What we could not confirm
- Nothing. Both moves are minuted, both explanations are on the record, and the fourteen-hour figure appears in the published operating manual.
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