The sheer size! CERN is the biggest science lab in the world! The best thing the size brings is international diversity. See this map that shows the nationalities of CERN users https://cds.cern.ch/record/2302064/?ln=no.
What’s beautiful is that people from various backgrounds, cultures, religions, faiths, nationalities, beliefs… are working together towards a common scientific goal. People who’s countries are at war against each other, can still work together peacefully. I honestly believe that CERN should be a model to the rest of the world of how international collaboration can work.
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