Did you know that 1 trillion proton-proton collisions are required to get 1 Higgs Boson? That it took two independent detectors, each working in a different way, to confirm its existence? And that the images generated by CERN in 1 year would need a stack of DVDs 40 km high?

These are just a few of the key facts that we learned during the fascinating visit of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The visit was followed by a constructive and open dialogue amongst grant-making foundations.

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