CERN’s Hadron Collider, which becomes operational shortly, has been likened to the temples of ancient times, whose builders also wished to comprehend the mysteries of the universe and creation.
This, by the way, is a part of the reason, although expressed very differently, why the Temple of Jerusalem, one of the great buildings of legend and religious faith, was based around a physical emptiness, incomprehensible to the worldly Romans who destroyed the great building in AD80. The temple, as latterly rebuilt by Herod the Great, might have been a mighty structure of stone, marble and cedar, yet its Holy of Holies, the shrine known only to high priests, contained nothing material or tangible whatsoever. What it did house, though, was the silent spirit of God.
