Perceiving the Nibelungen?
"Within the environs of Geneva we find, today, thousands of the world's best-trained and most highly educated physicists hard at work. In a metaphorical sense they have become the enchanted dwarves, the "Nibelungen" of the ancient Norse pagen religion who lived in a mystical region called Nibelheim, where they mined and toiled in the bowels of the earth. They ultimately created, from the gold of the Rhine, a ring of enormous magical power for whoever possed it"
The ring of enormous power within the evnirons of Geneva...
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets [...] It is here in Geneva that the metaphorical Nibelungen, the modern-day particle physicists, have fabricated, deep in the bowels of the earth, a mighty ring of their own."
"The physicists are real and their ring is real. It is not made of gold but rather tons of steel, ..."
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"The product of their labor is not gold but the creation of a new form of matter, far, far, more valuable than gold and never before seen in this world."
-from Beyond The God Particle -Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill Published 2013 All quoted excerpts above are from Chapter One - The Introduction
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