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CERN is the largest particle physics laboratory on this planet.

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CERN is like the Europa-Park for physicists.

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As students of the KIT, we are allowed to visit CERN here for a few

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days as part of a lecture.

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It's just amazing to see it live in this size, and not just the very

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small models.

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This is a 14,000-ton detector, CMS, and the ATLAS detector and the

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accelerator at CERN.

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For me, this is the most complex machine, the most complex device that

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mankind has ever built.

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I don't know what fascinates me.

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I think just imagining how it was built, that you can coordinate this

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size at all, that it was humanly possible to put such a thing here in

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some kind of cellar and then make great music here.

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How does it get to this universe?

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What is dark matter?

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What role does the Higgs boson play?

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These are the driving questions.

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As an institute, as a user at CERN, we are involved in the

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experiments.

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And right now, at the KIT, we are building the next generation of the

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CMS experiment.

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We are building elements for the next track detector, for the next

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calorimeter.

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The students we bring to CERN are students in the master's program,

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who are dealing with particle physics.

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And then they come here with this experience, with this first-time

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learner, and can understand things, see and touch things.

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I haven't been interested in particle physics since yesterday.

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When you see this huge facility here, of course, it's fascinating.

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And then you get a tingle and maybe you want to dig a little deeper.

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What else is there?

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So, everyone who doesn't say wow in there, is out of my course.

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I'm going into retirement at some point.

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I need a new generation that owns this detector the way I own it

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today.

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This is an effort that will continue over the next decades, possibly

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centuries.

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We have to do it.

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And if we don't prepare the next generation for it, it won't work.

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It was incredibly impressive.

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My decision to want to work at CERN later definitely stuck.

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And it's incredibly motivating for studying.