Inside CERN with an LHC scientist

[Pangloss]

A bit superficial for this crowd but I thought I'd pass it along just for the general interest of it. It's mostly stuff along the lines of "what do CERN scientists eat" and so forth, but hey you never know where motivation can come from.

 

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49304408,00.htm?tag=mncol;txt

 

My favorite bits:

 

What would happen if you were standing in front of the beam?

 

"You would die. It would be a pretty spectacular death, and you wouldn't know a lot about it."

 

Are the people who work there into games?

 

"There is definitely a big gaming contingent, with a lot of talk of Dungeons and Dragons. There's a lot of roleplaying, World of Warcraft and console games, and there are those that balk against that because they don't want to appear to be so geeky."