Frédéric JacobsMar 24

Somewhere at the French-Swiss border.

🛃 French border agent:
Excuse me sir, what is in the truck? Do you have anything to declare?

🚚 Truck driver: Just a cloud of 92 #antiprotons in an innovative portable cryogenic Penning trap.

🛃 French border agent: 🫠 🫠 🫠 I'm sorry, I think I owe you some money or something. I don't have the right form to deal with antimatter.

https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter

Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉
@fj appreciate them explaining their work in English. They’re so excited!
Mar 24 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadFrédéric JacobsMar 24

@nuthatch CERN has two official working languages: English and French.

And in practice on scientific matters, English is the leading language. Birth place of the Web too!
https://hr.web.cern.ch/language