Serious Magnet Failure at CERN's New Accelerator

GrepNut writes: CERN is reporting that the giant magnets that steer the particle beam in the new and highly anticipated Large Hadron Collider have just failed catastrophically in a stress test, apparently due to a design oversight. It doesn't help that the magnets were designed and built by CERN's US competitor Fermilab. News is still breaking, but blogs are starting here and here.