or maybe this is a clever scheme to raise public awareness of the higgsboson :-)
maybe it worked. Apparently 60'000 people came to visit the LHC while it was open to the public last weekend.
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/multimedia/picture_of_the_day.html? siteSect=15095&ty=in&sid=8940917
(the population of geneva being under half a million, that would be more than 10% !)
-Dave
