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That’s basically what happened after the Large Hadron Collider was powered up in September 2008. The large superconducting magnets generated so much stress that they cracked the ring and shattered. The world didn’t end, and it didn’t blow up, but it’s off line until mid summer 09. http://en.wikipedia.
