CERN
CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is located near the city of Geneva in the country of Switzerland. CERN is among the world's largest particle physics laboratories, currently employing approximately 2500 staffers.[1] It is also where Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
As of 2010, scientists at CERN are currently using the Large Hadron Collider to accelerate and collide particles, slowly pumping the power level up until it reaches a massive 7.5TeV which was expected to happen in late 2010.
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[edit] Conspiracy nuts and bullshit
As it is an European (OMG!), scientific (and therefore "elitist" and somewhat opaque, at least to the average redneck American) organization that operates a lot of weird machinery, conspiracy theorists sometimes accuse CERN of various and nebulous nefarious activities. For example, a statue of the Hindu god Shiva as Nataraja was presented as a gift from India in 2004,[2] and consequently was used as evidence for various batty claims — such as CERN trying to resurrect ancient gods, and no, that's not a metaphor.[3]
[edit] See also
- Neutrino observations in 2011 Controversial observations at CERN that seem to show neutrinos travelling faster than light. This finding has since been more or less shown to be wrong.