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That's awesome. My wife and I have been thinking about visiting CERN too. Curious, what part of the visit stood out as especially impressive? Last I checked, th
by ednite 1y ago
That's awesome. My wife and I have been thinking about visiting CERN too. Curious, what part of the visit stood out as especially impressive? Last I checked, there was a pretty long waiting list for tours.
- aaxa 1y agoI worked at CERN a few years ago, so assuming they haven't build any new amazing facilities, these would be my top picks: - Any of the experiments really, but especially ATLAS is impressive. - The antimatter factory. I found that the guides there are usually very passionate. - The control centre if you can get a tour (this is the facility I delivered software to).
- pezezin 1y agoI work for the control group at another accelerator, so we were visiting and meeting their control guys. Super friendly people all of them, they treated us like kings... and their control centre is bigger than our whole facility xD
- capitol_ 1y agoSo they allowed you to know that you are in the control group? Doesn't that introduce bias ;)
- pezezin 1y agoSorry, I don't understand your comment :/
- cycomanic 1y agoHe was referring that in many experiments (especially in medical/biological) you usually have a control group, e.g. the group that is being given a placebo. Took me a moment to understand it as well :)
- pezezin 1y agoAh shit, you are right. I worked at a medical research center aeons ago so I should have known, but I am still dizzy from the jet lag xD
- ednite 1y agoThank you.
- amenghra 1y agoIf you want to visit Atlas (control room) or CERN’s first accelerator (a synchrocyclotron) just show up in the morning when the visitor center opens. The tour guides are often passionate scientists. The museum is worth visiting, you’ll get to see the first www server (Tim-Berner Lee’s nextcube). The live shows are well put together. And everything is pretty much free of charge. The only thing I can think of that has a waiting period is if you want to visit the actual tunnels, you can only visit them in between experiments (every 10-20 years maybe even less often). More info: https://visit.cern/ https://visit.cern/
- ednite 1y agoThat is great news. The last time I checked, there was a long waitlist and needed to book online (maybe COVID-related?). Appreciate you sharing this story.
- amenghra 1y agoThis link might interest you: https://cms.cern/interact-with-cms/on-site-visits https://cms.cern/interact-with-cms/on-site-visits If the timing works out for you, you'll be able to visit both, the visitor center and CMS!
- ednite 1y agoDefinitely will check it out. Thanks on a subatomic scale!
- toomuchtodo 1y agoCan you visit CMS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid
- amenghra 1y agoThe presentations/videos talk extensively about CMS' detector (if I remember right). I'm not sure about visiting the control center, you would need to inquire if/when they do that.