Year 12 Physics students had an exciting day trip to Geneva to CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider. 
CERN is the cradle of the internet where the first world-wide-web server can be seen; the Web, however, is only a spin off from 58 years of investigation into the nature of matter.
The purpose of the work at CERN is to unpick the rummy-like combinations that make up proton-like particles (Hadrons) in order, in a sense, to find the pack of cards at the heart of all things.
The structures are vast including the Large Hadron Collider with its 27km circular underground tunnel and particle detectors like the 7000 tonne one that we visited.
We also crossed the border into France to see the structure sections like the ones below ground, and to understand the engineering of the electromagnets that provide the bending and focusing of the proton beams in the tunnel.