It's stories like this that make me wish I had become a theoretical physicist.
De Rujula is smoking in his messy office. He looks like he may have just stepped out of another dimension — one filled with dry-witted, articulate scientists who roll their own cigarettes and wear bright-striped sweaters and purple pants.
Of course, for most scientists in the thankless world of academia I'll bet they wish that they become architects, but in this case the CERN folks get to work on some incredibly cool shit. Plus they get to work 100 meters below a bucolic Swiss landscape.
"Nothing comes to the surface," De Rujula says. "That's why the Swiss milk continues to be so good. The cows don't care."
It's stories like this that make me wish I had become a theoretical physicist.
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