A quiet Christmas

A quiet Christmas

The winter shutdown has begun. CERN closes its doors, turns off the heat, and stops doing physics for two full weeks, starting today. And CERN Love will do the same.

It’s time to say good-bye to 2009 — an epic year — and prepare ourselves for the next stage of CERN craziness.  We here at CERN Love have appreciated all your support and willingness to laugh a bit at a place which we are truly lucky to be associated with, but one which is pretty fucking weird.  We’ll be on holidays ourselves, trying to party as hard as our colleagues… and it appears we won’t be missing much here at the lab →

The LHC is expected to come back to life near Valentine’s Day/Chinese New Year, 2010 (that is 14 February for those of you who are neither consumers of greeting cards printed in China nor printers of greeting cards printed in China).  Don’t worry, CERN Love is expected to come back to life much sooner, around 6 January, shortly after work begins again at CERN.

CERN Love would like to extend our heartfelt season’s greetings to you and yours.  As a small gift to you, we attach a gallery of pictures from current and past winters in Geneva (including Fête de l’Escalade) and CERN.

Love,

CERN Love