Fake news Fun and fake facts about CERN
Fake news? Fun and fake(? ) facts about CERN A few extracts from the Archives Jens Vigen Scientific Information Service
True or false?
False!
CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force
CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force
How to get a job at CERN? Apply? Get in through contacts? Get at job at a circus?
Wim Klein extracted the nineteenth root of a 133 digit number in his head in 8 minutes.
Wolfgang Pauli The strange, totally not true story of a cursed physicist • He was among the most brilliant physicists of the 20 th century – Proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930 – Won the Nobel Prize for in 1945 for the exclusion principle • Sometimes when he walked into a room, something bad happened. Things broke. Equipment failed. Colleagues jokingly called it "The Pauli Effect. " Though it could be easily explained away as coincidence and circumstance, some within the scientific community— including Pauli—believed it was real • Photo manipulations (if any …) by David Fathi
Pauli is omnipresent
Are you able to stop it?
What happened? !
Some people come… (or should we say appear? )
… while other go (read vanish!)
Testing the gravitational force
Who invited Pauli to this building?
Outcome of the French driving culture or the Pauli-effect?
“Good afternoon Prof. Pauli, thanks for visiting our experiment. ”
“Excuse me, I am looking for Prof. Pauli, have you seen him? ”
“What did you do to make that happen? ”
“Sorry, I did not get you. How ordered those containers? ”
Road incident No further comments required …
Creative solution to the CERN parking problem
If you have doubts, ask!
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