CERN, which stands for "place where war-losing Frogs and neutral, chocolate-loving Swiss accelerate particles" is currently the largest particle accelerating physics lab. They should revel in their grandiosity while they can, because the title will soon go to the Large Hadron Collider in May 2008, just up the street in Geneva.
But before everyone ditches the tired-ass CERN for the hotter, younger Large Hadron Collider, we should all remember why we fell in love with CERN in the first place. She gave us W and Z bosons, the determination of the number of neutrino families and the creation of antihydrogen atoms. The World Wide Web (now called Innernets) was also created in her superfine computer center in 1990, by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau (sit down, Al).
But times have changed, baby, and we gots to move on. LHC is tighter, younger and may give us a Higgs boson — It's just the way the world works, right? Try to remember the good times, baby.
One more pic after the jump.
Introducing CERN, the world's largest particle physics lab (kirps.com)
