• Question: Hi Ben! Do you ever see Mario around work and do you enjoy your job? Also does your name really sum you up? One more thing, What sort of stuff do you blow up?

    Asked by lambkhaliq to Ben on 12 Mar 2012.
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      Ben Smart answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Hi! I’ve never actually met Mario, but CERN is a big place, and there are thousands of people working here. I’m keeping my eye out for him and we’re bound to meet each other eventually. Hah, I’d say there’s more to me than just my name 😛 In the experiments we do at CERN we blow up protons, which I think is pretty cool! To me it’s amazing that we can actually split apart things that are inside atoms and study them. And it’s a weird weird world when you start dealing with things inside protons! Nothing really makes behaves as you might expect it to. Things can be in more than one place at a time. Things can travel backwards in time. All very strange by everyday standards.

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