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I have a basic understanding of CERN, but if it comes down to it, everything they do there still blows my mind.
Like, imagine being the person who designed that experiment.
“Here is a CERN. Find out how antimatter falls.”
And some one/team was like ok I got this. And then they showed up one day & did it.
“Down. It goes down.”
I know it was much more complex than that, but still…imagine having the brain that stores the information required to do this. It’s so fucking cool.
It amazes me that people have this much ability and brains to complete such things. Meanwhile look at me. sigh
It is many, many people working together. No one person has this much ability or brains, only by working together do we make big modern scientific discoveries.
I would say it's many people working together who also have abnormally amazing brains.