Today we had our first lectures on Cosmology and Bubble Chambers. They were both incredibly interesting and when i get back i'll be implementing some of the things i've done back at school. I won't give anything away but lets just say it will be worth the effort and wait........
However, if anyone has any questions now would be the time to ask. I'll have more lectures during this and next week and bear in mind i am speaking to some of the foremost experts on the subject so now is the time to ask questions you've always wanted to know the answers too. (i.e. Dark matter, why is the night sky dark etc...)
I got my ID card today as well which is pretty neat. I now have 24 hour access to the CERN site. The incredible thing that strikes me about this place is how open and friendly everyone is. I only speak English but everyone seems multilingual....French, German, Italian, Spanish... there is probably at least one person from each of the major developed countries who also speak more than one language. It puts me to shame as they are all very good at communicating in English... especially my fellow HST colleagues.
When i said this place was open, I was serious and meant that every building is open access. (Except from the accelerators as there is obviously a health and safety aspect.) The unusual thing about this is practically all the buildings, (And there a hundreds) are all linked together. If not above ground then underground. So it's quite possible to go from one part of the site to the other side without seeing sunlight, (Well it doesn't matter just now as it is still raining!) if you know your underground entrances.
The other aspect is that they are really happy for us to take pictures of anything and everything. They really have no secrets here... well at least that is until i try to something incredibly stupid at which point i'm sure the specially trained ninjas will appear out of nowhere and incapacitate me with the Vulcan grip. Hey, this is CERN we're talking about it here!
They must have ninjas here if they can break apart subatomic particles. I will have to ask Mick about this.
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