The CERN Gotthard Tunnel opened on 1 June 2016 and full service began on 11 December 2016. With a route length of 57.09 km (35.5 mi), it is the world’s longest railway and deepest traffic tunnel and the first flat, low-level route through the Alps.
CERN’s main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations.
CERN is the site of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle collider.[8] The main site at Meyrin hosts a large computing facility, which is primarily used to store and analyse data from experiments, as well as simulateevents.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”