(con)CERN trip 2006
Just got back from a four day trip to Geneva, Switzerland.
Common misconception about this trip: lots of people seem to think it was a field trip. it clearly wasn't. it was a private trip by a group of people which all happen to (once in a while at least) attend the same lecture. This mite raise concern about the level of sanity in the group but well...
we had an awesome time. Spent a whole day visiting different CERN sites. Vanish underground to see ATLAS, the anti-proton decelerator(making anti-hydrogen, featured in Dan Brown's angles&daemons, we were assured by a real scientist that anti-matter bombs are not feasible) and COMPASS (a fixed target experiment, much easier to look at the detector). Had lunch at the canteen, but i'd rather not speak about that.
on saturday strolled around town, dozed in the sun and visited the UN/league of nations.
sunday: travel back home. discovered free internet at geneva airport.
head over here and here and there for a set of pictures
Common misconception about this trip: lots of people seem to think it was a field trip. it clearly wasn't. it was a private trip by a group of people which all happen to (once in a while at least) attend the same lecture. This mite raise concern about the level of sanity in the group but well...
we had an awesome time. Spent a whole day visiting different CERN sites. Vanish underground to see ATLAS, the anti-proton decelerator(making anti-hydrogen, featured in Dan Brown's angles&daemons, we were assured by a real scientist that anti-matter bombs are not feasible) and COMPASS (a fixed target experiment, much easier to look at the detector). Had lunch at the canteen, but i'd rather not speak about that.
on saturday strolled around town, dozed in the sun and visited the UN/league of nations.
sunday: travel back home. discovered free internet at geneva airport.
head over here and here and there for a set of pictures
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