Nine Days Immersed in Particle Physics (in Geneva)

Sarah Mackay, a brilliant and curious first-year undergraduate, arrives in Geneva with a suitcase full of physics books and a hunger to understand the smallest particles in the universe. At CERN—the world's leading particle physics laboratory—she joins an elite group of students for a nine-day immersion into the strange and beautiful world of quarks, gluons, and the theories that govern reality.

But as lectures unfold and collisions deepen, so too do strange and personal entanglements. Sarah...