Well, yesterday I returned from the school trip to Geneva. Epically good time; the UN wasn't really my cup of tea, but was interesting nonetheless. Similarly, Red Cross Museum was kinda crappy, though that wasn't helped by the unintelligible tour guide...shame.
However the key reason for going as a Physicist, was the visit to CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Seeing the magnet assembly facility, the magnet that crushed a hundred thousand scientists dreams last September, the magnets cooled down to 1.9K (That's -271.1 degrees Celsius) , and all the equipment they use down in the tunnels was awesome. On the same scale, the computer centre showed us Tim Berners-Lee's original system that created and hosted the first internet (invented so CERN's scientists could communicate across the world) and the servers where they host their petabytes (1PB = 1,000,000GB!) of information.
All in all, a most epic trip. Food was, by and large, excellent (Though I'll avoid the Mongolian-Yurt-Cheese-Fondue-With-The-Meat-Like-Growth-At-The-Bottom...) and I had a great time with all my friends. Awesome <3
-Josh-
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