A spokesman on behalf of CERN explained that the damage that occurred on Friday was found to be much worse than they had originally thought.
Technically known as a quench, the fault caused 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to overheat by as much as 100 degrees, and the fire brigade had to be summoned after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel where the LHC is housed.
The LHC has been designed by research scientists to smash protons together at vast speeds, in an attempt to bring about conditions believed to have occurred moments after the Big Bang.
The first beams were fired around the LHC’s 27km (16.7 miles) underground ring over a week back and the next step the scientists planned was to collide those beams head on, however, due to the fault that has happened they will not get a chance at doing so for at least another couple of months.
