CERN is the "Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire", or "European Organization for Nuclear Research".

CERN, located on the France-Swiss border, near Geneva, It is the world's largest research centre for particle physics.

CERN's efforts are now primarily focused on the construction and completion of the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. The 27 kilometre particle accelerator/collider will become the world's most powerful.

Using the LHC (to be completed in 2007) CERN hopes to set and study conditions very close to those shortly after the Big Bang. They hope to answer questions such as: "What is Mass? Are there extra dimensions? Are there violations between the symmetry of matter and antimatter?"

Numerous CERN physicist have been awarded Nobel Prizes, and CERN is reconized as the creator of the World Wide Web.

20 countries currently contribute to CERN's efforts.
The answers to the universe's biggest questions lie in the universe's tiniest particles.
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CERN - "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire" - The world's largest particle physics laboratory. CERN is credited for the creation of the internet. They're also in the process of making a 27-kilometer circumfrence particle accelerator. CERN is currently studying antimatter and potential uses in the future.
CERN was a big part of Dan Brown's book "Angels & Demons"
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A foot like place in that holds different types of matter in which any thingie inserted can light various things on fire
My torch is over there on my desk in the cern
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Using a piece of bread (preferably a baguette) to cause misfortune to someone.
guy puts baguette in another guys beer. "you just got cerned"
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A name for dumb people with funny jokes.
Their brain can somehow only make jokes and, noting more.
He has a 92.36% chance of being gay.
- Yo Cern whats 2 + 2?
- 21
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A mental illness characterised by the onset of believing every girl you meet to be a perfect 10, and then trying to seduce them with your eyes.

Caused by a severe lack of women, as seen in CERN, and other male-dominated scientific research institutes around the world.
Alfred "why is jon staring at that hideously deformed woman?"
Nobel "Shit, hes got CERN syndrome, get him out of here"
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A mental illness characterised by the onset of believing every girl you meet to be a perfect 10, and then trying to seduce them with your eyes.

Caused by a severe lack of women, as seen in CERN, and other male-dominated scientific research institutes around the world.
Alfred "why is jon staring at that hideously deformed woman?"
Nobel "Shit, hes got CERN goggles, get him out of here"
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