what it is like to work here

My first day at cern was like visiting new york city for the first time. All huge and bewildering. except instead of large buildings you have many very flat ones. I get to work with all sorts of interesting people. You have got to understand that this is a worldwide effort. there are people from 150 universities and laboratories in 35 countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA CERN and JINR. My first detail was under the ALICE project.
At first when I got started there I thought " hey I am a genius they should listen to my idea. it wasn't until the second day I arrived that I realized that there are more projects going on that just smashing protons together. CERN's LHC is fed by a staged system. at first there is a liniac which boosts the speed and there there is another stage called the PS booster and that really gets the ions going.

You literally feel like a single ant in a hive colony. you have a single task to perform everyday. The exception is that you know when the experiments are taking place and if the results are good or nonexistant. My duties is to basically monitor liquid helium and nitrogen levels. There are These include 1232 dipole magnets of 40 ft length which are used to bend the beams, and 392 quadrupole magnets, each 25 ft long. there are even more magnets serving the detectors.
each of these magnets is served by a main helium tank and an auxiliary helium tank. Liquid helium is a finicky substance. Your pipeline tubing must be double jacketed the inner tube wherein the helium flows and the outer tube is where the liquid nitrogen flows. helium being at near absolute zero sees room temperature as a blazing furnace. so they let it see a 77 kelvin environment vs a 300k environment. we also have a intricate helium recovery system which we have our very own refrigerators to liquefy gasses. We do not just pump in liquid helium we precool the magnets with liquid nitrogen and then with helium. These magnets are done electronically in stages. We use a Unix interface with the temperature and pressure sensors.

I am writing this blog becuase I am seeing some strange things that I have not seen before. I notice higher levels of security, and more US military presence. I hear strange rumors and weird Jokes. I think that there is more going on that what is being let out. i will report to you everything I hear and see.