Prof. Singh, Cynthia, and Madeeha before they head underground to the particle accelerator
Today we visited CERN and had a fantastic lecture and guided visit given by a physicist who had helped build one of the particle accelerators. Although CERN has stopped public visits to underground areas, WE got to go underground to see one of the huge experiments that is part of the Large Hadron Collider, also called the particle accelerator! It was fascinating, and our guide’s enthusiasm for the research done there was compelling. He also discussed Tim Berners Lee, who created the Internet at CERN.
We talked about technology assessment, how researchers do research, international collaboration and politics that go into making CERN work, and much more – all very CCT-like topics. The video below is underground looking at the particle accelerator and and experiment built around the accelerator.
For more information about CERN, the particle accelerator, and the 20th anniversary of the development of the Internet, visit CERN’s site.
underground looking at an experiment that is part of the particle accelerator
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