Modern “cathedral” offers artistic inspiration

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Grandeur is often associated with feats of architecture and engineering. It’s not often applied to scientific experiments. One notable exception is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator and collider complex at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, outside Geneva, Switzerland. Artist Jonathan Feldschuh was so fascinated with the massive instrument’s physical beauty that he created a series of more than 40 paintings detailing the LHC’s various angles, patterns, and vantage points. “I wanted to capture the grandeur,” he says, “in terms of the intellectual project and the physical structure.”