From the canteen to the control room, seven CERN insiders describe what life is really like in the build-up to the switch-on of the LHC in November 2009. Find out their roles in the world’s biggest physics experiment, in which thousands of researchers from around the world are unearthing nature’s secrets, playing with cathedral-sized detectors and drinking lots of coffee too.
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