Kaizar shared this awesome excerpt from a fascinating Vanity Fair article about the new $9 billion gargantuan Large Hadron Collider (That's what she said).
I was repeatedly reminded of Arthur C. Clarke’s remark that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” cern may be the closest thing real life has to Hogwarts, an institution where arcane arts amounting to sorcery are pursued by a cultish guild of masters and their young protégés.