“You blink your eye and light goes seven and a half times around the Earth.”
This enterprise has changed, is changing, and will continue to change our world for the better. This is where the God Particle, the Higgs Boson, was proved. This is where current theories will be proved and disproved. This is where unimagined understanding will be found.
This enterprise is expensive, its benefits are exponential.
Albert Einstein left his reactive country to seek opportunity in America. The worlds current geniuses gather here to continue the work of all the scientists before them whose shoulders they stand on.
These people are different, weird, foreign, other from most of us. It is a requirement of genius to be different. Same-same does not produce new ideas. Immigration is not just about who lives where. Immigration is the movement of thoughts, ideas, concepts, and dreams.
Dreams make enterprise:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/08/09/542376003/at-cern-in-search-of-nature-s-building-blocks