MAKING TROUBLE
Making Things Work
The most incredible headline of the year, if not the decade, or century, just passed through the news wires, largely unnoticed. We, humanity, built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, in Switzerland and France. We turned it on. It worked.
Why is this the coolest headline of the decade? It took more than 8,000 physicists from 85 countries to design it and put it together — countless engineers and technicians, with countless opportunities for a mistake to be made, or a number to be miscalculated. It’s a stunning testament to the power of humans to work together to do something incredibly complicated. And it worked.
When I visited early in 2008, it felt like going to the shrine of technology. ...
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