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Into the light
- 0111:14. Aris steps through the curtain. The stage lights strike him like a slap.
- 02Building Five Hundred: brown paneling, faded red seats, the weight of scientific history. Four hundred faces and nineteen live broadcasts watch him.
- 03He recalls the Higgs announcement in this room. This discovery, he promises, will not let the world return to football a week later.
- 04Officials and embassy men sit among the press. In the fourth row, a thin man silently reads a thick stack of papers. Why has a molecular biologist chosen CERN?