A fancy light show? Oh come on, you can do better. The energy stored in just one of the magnets in the ATLAS detector is enough to melt a couple of tons of solid gold outright. Its beam dump will have to dissipate over 700 Megajoules in less than a millisecond whenever they want to turn it off - That's probably enough to reduce an M1 Abrams tank to molten slag. Many universities involved with the project have had to have special high-speed data connections built just to cope with the amount of data that needs to be moved for analysis. As I said, the LHC is insane... it deserves at least a modern game with more impressive special effects
Plus given that the world wide web was invented at CERN, Half-Life already owes much of its popularity to it even without the LHC
