Failure on the bleeding edge of science · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave and Evil Steve joke about the Large Hadron Collider's first transformer and helium problems, then Dr. Dave steps back: when people build unprecedented machinery to ask what happened moments after the Big Bang, breakdowns are part of changing history and creating science, not proof that the attempt should never have been made.
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Proposed recording date: 2008-09-20. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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