The Atlas detector is being readied for the relaunch of the LHC, which will run through the winter in the race to find the Higgs. Photograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP
THE GUARDIAN: Earlier this month I took my wife to Cern, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva and home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It was my idea of a romantic weekend away.
I completed my PhD while working on one of the Cern experiments (UA2), so it was a good opportunity to show Anita the sort of thing that I did during my brief life as a particle physicist. It was also a chance to contrast the reality of Cern with the sinister way it is portrayed in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons.
