Question: Is Globalization related to science?(And how is it related)?

Clara Nellist answered on 21 Mar 2014:

Globalisation is extremely important for science, especially the kind of research that I do at CERN. In fact it’s in the official mandate:

“1.The Organization shall provide for collaboration among European States in nuclear research of a pure scientific and fundamental character, and in research essentially related thereto. The Organization shall have no concern with work for military requirements and the results ofits experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available.”

The experiment I work on, called ATLAS, is a huge international collaboration with 3000 scientists from around 40 countries working together. We can’t all be at CERN at the same time, so we use the internet to communicate with each other and discuss results. Not only do we send emails and data, but we also have meetings online so that people can connect and talk from where ever they are. I was in a meeting yesterday afternoon that an American guy had connected to. It was 1am his time! That’s dedication. There are also real-life meetings all over the world for scientists from different experiments to get together and discuss what they’ve found out, which is great if you like to travel! There was even a conference on international management that used ATLAS as an example of how to do it right!

Speaking of the internet: The World Wide Web (WWW) is the way that webpages are linked together and it was actually invented at CERN 25 years ago, last week! The guy who invented it, Tim Berners-Lee, wanted a way for scientists to be able to talk to each other and share information easily. And now this is critical for globalisation!

So sometimes science doesn’t only benefit from globalisation, but is actually the driving force behind it.