A mad thought
If in fact Albert was slightly wrong and acceleration of a particle can in fact cross the speed of light boundary then perhaps it also crosses the time boundary and in fact somehow then is in the past - it causes a fault as at such speeds failures can easily happen to the infrastructure. Since the machine becomes inactive then the particle then slows and returns to our time frame, leaving us now an inoperable machine. All we see is that the experiment started but then the machine failed - My proposal is in fact it didn't breakdown, but was wrecked by a super-light speed series of pulverising particles.
If in fact Albert was slightly wrong and acceleration of a particle can in fact cross the speed of light boundary then perhaps it also crosses the time boundary and in fact somehow then is in the past - it causes a fault as at such speeds failures can easily happen to the infrastructure. Since the machine becomes inactive then the particle then slows and returns to our time frame, leaving us now an inoperable machine. All we see is that the experiment started but then the machine failed - My proposal is in fact it didn't breakdown, but was wrecked by a super-light speed series of pulverising particles.