Shut Down

So, the Large Hadron Collider had a helium leak, which forced it to shut down for two months.

The official reason for the shutdown is that the leaked helium means that the magnets can't be properly cooled, and the experiments can't run. Of course, the real reason is that the leaked helium means all the scientists would have high, squeaky voices and they would all be laughing too hard at each other to read the instruments...