Really cool! It lived up to my expectations and was a fascinating place to be for a few months (even if particle/theoretical physicists can be a bit out there sometimes. That was part of the fun tbh)

Exactly!

I don’t teach; I have an MSc in science communication and work mostly for intergovernmental science organisations in Europe (but not CERN anymore. I was only there for four months)

He told me he was learning Irish?

Yeah, just because something is true doesn’t make it intuitive or easy to understand, in this case precisely because things at that scale work so differently from at our macro scale.

(As context, at the time we were specifically talking about teaching students to read Feynman diagrams)

The real question here is how many books did Trouby read?

But you will not improve them by gutting public services, leaving the EU or trying to be a European Trump. This is a gem of a place where we’re lucky to live; let’s keep it that way!

Brought to you by a real experience with IKEA today…