**There are no plans to become a member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research despite the obvious benefits**
Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is one of the greatest civilian scientific research organisations on the planet. It has produced 33 Nobel Laureates and is home to the world’s greatest scientific machine – the Large Hadron Collider, a 26.5km circular, underground particle accelerator, capable of closely recreating the first seconds in the life of the universe.
The Theoretical Physics Student Association, held a meeting recently at the provost’s residence at Trinity College Dublin to discuss how the issue of the State’s Cern membership, which has been envisaged for decades, can be somehow pushed up the Government agenda. In attendance were physicists, mathematicians, politicians, journalists and civil servants.
TCD provost Prof Linda Doyle opened the meeting by thanking the people who over many years pushed for Cern membership. She said: “We have brilliant people in this room, brilliant people in Ireland who will be better able to use their talents if they can get access to Cern equipment and facilities.”
The best approach was to push for associate membership now, with a view to full membership in the longer term, she suggested.
For physicists, Cern is as good as it gets. This is where answers to the biggest questions are found and where spin-off technologies resulting from this research, such as the world wide web, can change lives for the better. It is an elite club for doing elite science.
*Cern, with its 17,000 physicists, engineers and technicians working in different locations, yet all connected to each other, represents the largest, most sophisticated and complex experiment on the planet*
It was founded in 1954, to unite science and scientists across Europe, and its members include all the nations of western, central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia and some Baltic states. In short, almost any country in Europe remotely interested in pursuing cutting-edge particle physics. The case for joining makes sense to everyone across Europe, it seems, with the notable exception of the State.
great – you’ve got business people deciding what scientific people want now. Should they not ask the scientific community to decide.
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**There are no plans to become a member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research despite the obvious benefits**
Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is one of the greatest civilian scientific research organisations on the planet. It has produced 33 Nobel Laureates and is home to the world’s greatest scientific machine – the Large Hadron Collider, a 26.5km circular, underground particle accelerator, capable of closely recreating the first seconds in the life of the universe.
The Theoretical Physics Student Association, held a meeting recently at the provost’s residence at Trinity College Dublin to discuss how the issue of the State’s Cern membership, which has been envisaged for decades, can be somehow pushed up the Government agenda. In attendance were physicists, mathematicians, politicians, journalists and civil servants.
TCD provost Prof Linda Doyle opened the meeting by thanking the people who over many years pushed for Cern membership. She said: “We have brilliant people in this room, brilliant people in Ireland who will be better able to use their talents if they can get access to Cern equipment and facilities.”
The best approach was to push for associate membership now, with a view to full membership in the longer term, she suggested.
For physicists, Cern is as good as it gets. This is where answers to the biggest questions are found and where spin-off technologies resulting from this research, such as the world wide web, can change lives for the better. It is an elite club for doing elite science.
*Cern, with its 17,000 physicists, engineers and technicians working in different locations, yet all connected to each other, represents the largest, most sophisticated and complex experiment on the planet*
It was founded in 1954, to unite science and scientists across Europe, and its members include all the nations of western, central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia and some Baltic states. In short, almost any country in Europe remotely interested in pursuing cutting-edge particle physics. The case for joining makes sense to everyone across Europe, it seems, with the notable exception of the State.
great – you’ve got business people deciding what scientific people want now. Should they not ask the scientific community to decide.