Tour du LHC

An intrepid Symmetry writer and communicator at CERN navigates the landscape above the Large Hadron Collider by bicycle. The Swiss Plateau might look flat from above, but both the bird's-eye view and its name are deceiving; it is, in fact, peppered with hills. I realize this while biking it, heading from my apartment in Prevessin, France, to the CERN Control Center. Despite covering just over a mile, the ride makes me break into a sweat. It's Friday, July 13. While the professional cyclists zip ...