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    Okay, so you have probably heard about the video that all of the student journalism teams had to prepare while we were abroad. Though you are probably wondering what it is, and what went into making it.

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Well, it’s over unfortunately, and right now we’re here on
the long plane ride from Munich, Germany to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. There’s not much to
do, so I’m going to write pretty much a generalization of how amazing the trip
was. Obviously there is no internet service on the plane, so I am just writing
it now to pass time and put in the blog later.

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    During our interview with Malcolm Fairbairn a favorite
subject of mine came up, known as 'Dark Matter'. Leighann did a great job of
explaining this on one of her earlier posts, but what she did not get into was
the related topic of 'Dark Energy', so I am going to indulge you on my own
personal understanding of it.

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Today was almost completely booked! This morning we
started off the day by heading to one of the sites along the acceleration part
of the LHC. This is basically an extremely long tunnel that holds the pathway
along which the particles will travel, and the magnets that will steer them.
The section that we visited did not have any magnets installed, so we could
still see the two beam pipes running down the tunnel which was really neat!

    After we got back from the LHC, we had lunch, worked on

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We just got back from Geneva, and are working like fiends on the videos and other stuff. Geneva was really cool! We went to a bunch of shops and walked around the old part of town, which had some very cool buildings and streets. Our dinner was at this hotel sort of place, and it was kind of meager and VERY expensive (luckily we didn't have to pay for it!). Tomorrow is almost completely booked, but I will be on tomorrow night to update you all with most likely a very large post!

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Today has been much more relaxed, and not as heavy on the schedule. Basically
what we have done so far is receive some very nice and high tech video cameras
and interview local scientists with them. This is basically for a video that we
will have finished by the end of the weekend that we need to hand into the CERN
people just for some more public relations material.

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After a short jump from Rochester to Philadelphia, an interesting adventure around the Phili
airport, and the long flight from there to Zurich. We were FINALLY in Europe!
We arrived at about 8 AM this morning for Swiss time, and about 2 in the morning
for Rochester (just for future reference, we are 6 hours ahead of you), so we
were pretty tired, and this wasn't helped by the fact that none of us really

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So today is my last full day to get anything done while were still home, so it was a bit crammed at school today! Other than that I'm pretty excited and really can't wait to leave tomorrow! I'm a little nervous, and it really is very hard to grasp the fact that we REALLY are going to the particle collider at CERN. We should be writing things in here at least daily I'm expecting, if not more. So read up! and I hope its as interesting to you as it is to us!! haha

-Nick

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