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Published: March 4, 2008, 4:30 pm

I've written about Brian Cox before; he's a UK physicist working on the new Large Hadron Collider in France. He's a smart fellow, as you might expect. He was interviewed for Wired magazine, and in the course of talking about life at CERN (the research lab in charge of the LHC) this exchange occurred: Wired: CERN has about 5,600 scientists from dozens of countries running the experiments. How does this mini United Nations get along? Had any bar fights yet? Cox: No, it's a miracle. It's one of the great things about CERN, when you see what strange bedfellows it's created. We've got Iran and Pakistan and the U.S. and Israel. List any two counties that you think wouldn't be able to get along and they're at CERN, getting along. I think it's one of the great achievements at CERN; and CERN is very proud of it. They're very insistent, for example, that the U.S. has to sign papers with Iranian scientists. In general, the U.S. doesn't sign papers with scientists from

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