I guess we'll all be called about to pronounce it "KERN" from now one. I see what I did there.
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Posted on 10/21/2025 6:04:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ireland has officially joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an associate member state.
CERN is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world on the Franco-Swiss border, just outside Geneva.
The main focus of activity in CERN is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-km (17-mile) underground ring in which protons are accelerated and collided into one another.
Associate membership will allow Ireland’s researchers to participate in CERN’s scientific programs and will make Irish citizens eligible for staff positions and fellowships at CERN. …
(Excerpt) Read more at rte.ie ...
Wasn’t a CERN experiment supposed to destroy the entire universe a few years back? In the end I guess it was kind of like climate change. What a disappointment...
What I heard was that it was going to create a black hole in place of the planet.
(And then John Wiley Price stopped that in its tracks by pointing that out to be “racist”.)
So are they going to use potatoes in the atom smasher?
Special Ed !
Why is this news?!?
Honey, I Shrunk the Leprechaun?
I didn’t put it in the news forum, for good reason.
“...in which protons are accelerated and collided into one another...”
Oh geez...don’t let a bunch of Irishmen tinker with that potential H bomb!!😵💫
Ireland joining is a concern.
I guess we'll all be called about to pronounce it "KERN" from now one. I see what I did there.
Yikes!
Irish string theorists??
It did! The paperwork is not complete!
Such a KERN-y. Joke. 😆
They want to make out of this world potato vodka.
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