There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was ‘style’ and a result obtained with simple equipment was more...

Despite my resistance to hyperbole, the LHC belongs to a world that can only be described with superlatives. It is not merely large: the LHC is the biggest machine ever built. It is not merely...

The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money.””I hadn’t known that,” I said. “I always tend to assume there’s an...