answer:This is a problem of experience. Engineering is physics; it’s just that you have to actually develop the manual competences to do the physics. CERN isn’t a physics experiment; it’s a triumph of engineering. Sometimes I think that current educational trends, like learner-centredness, can actually do more harm than good: being self-aware is all good, but when it stops people saying ”right, let’s build a particle accelerator”, it’s a bad thing.