Rock Stars Quizzed on Particle Physics

July 21, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments

The Paleo Music Festival is on now in Nyon, Switzerland, which is somewhere between Geneva and Switzerland near Leman Lake. The lineup includes everyone from Arcade First and Midnight Oil to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Pixies.

Nyon is also a short 25 drive from CERN, the headquarters of the Large Hadron Collider and the epicentre of the most esoteric fringes of particle physics. Some people from CERN thought they’d test the headliners on their knowledge of things like the nature of gravity, the Higgs Boson and–well, you’ll see.

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