Monday, 11. November 2013
Topic: SCIENCE - on November 11, 2013 at 4:48:00 PM CET
After the Higgs hype, Cern still has as much purpose and passion as ever
As the tram trundles through the suburbs of Geneva, a huge lit-up globe by the side of the road lets me know I have arrived at Cern (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research). This is the mecca of particle physics. Most of it looks like a fairly undistinguished campus. "The money has not been spent on the buildings," I am repeatedly told. "The money is all underground." Underground, of course, are the tunnels where beams of light are smashed into each other. Under my feet are the colliders and detectors that are helping us understand what the universe is actually made of.
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