Why LHC physics is like 'Starcraft'

Video games and physics have more in common than you might think. Freya Blekman, a professor of physics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, has a special chair for when she plays Starcraft. "It's a designer chair," she says. "I like things to look nice." Blekman, who works on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, started gaming in the early '80s when Pacman and Pong were popular, and she never stopped. She loves exploring new worlds, solving puzzles and working with a te...