The CERN is in Switzerland ! :p

In high school I went to the FermiLab saturday morning physics program, it was a ton of fun. That was actually the same year Leon Lederman won the Nobel Prize which was neat. We had little classes that he and some of the other physicists taught, and got to “see the experiments” which is basically a bunch of grad students sitting in front of a computer.

Though we did get to see the experimental equipment - themselves were basically a giant room sized block of material, or water, that tried to detect particles shooting through it.

Also most of that equipment was painted orange and blue at the time, so I guess someone went to Illinois.

And buffaloes, lots of buffaloes, the joke being “the buffaloes die first”

The biggest thing I learned was that they didn’t do integrals, they hated them too! (yay!) Instead they plotted graphs on paper and cut them out, then weighed the paper. Compared to a known area of paper a simple ratio revealed the area under the curve. :) Damn and I spent all that time in calculus.

And a less overloaded twitter page here http://twitter.com/cern