CERN

     The CERN lab really enforces the idea that even though we have made huge leaps in bounds in science, there is still a lot left for humanity to discover. It's crazy to think that Bosons were such a recent discovery that I didn't learn about them in high school physics, but future generations will.
     It was interesting learning how they conduct experiments and test new theories at CERN. A lot goes into testing, collecting and analyzing new data to confirm or disprove a theory. I was impressed to learn that they keep the data completely separate at two of the locations of the LHC; ATLAS and CMS. The data is collected and analyzed completely separately then compared so that there can be no bias to influence interpretation or contamination of the data. They want to continue to stick to true science at CERN which is very responsible of them and allows them to have so much success.

     Some of the information I learned that surprised me was how much CERN has contributed to my field of study; Software Engineering. CERN made huge contributions in mass data storage because they needed to be able to store all the data they collected from their experiments. In addition they founded the World Wide Web to be able to share that data. This is obviously a huge contribution in not only software engineering and development, but to everyone that uses the internet today.