The room where it happens

Symmetry goes inside the CERN Control Centre on restart day. Mike Lamont, the deputy head of the Beams Department at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider, turns and looks toward the entrance of the accelerator control center. "There she is," he says. Fabiola Gianotti, the Director General of CERN, strolls towards the crowd of engineers, operators and physicist huddled around the wall of screens that form the control panel for LHC. "Who is the operator on shift?" Gianotti asks, and a woman per...